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6 Aug 2024 14:23:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Life Forms 3.5 FREE  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 12 Apr 2002 15:44:34
Message: <xOtnuCAH9st8EwH8@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Andrew Cocker who wrote:

>What's needed, I think, is software to convert .bvh motion files (or
>whatever other format it outputs) into a text file that POV can deal with.
>Then instead of having to deal with POV-code IK systems, just use a macro to
>build your character from it's joint coordinates (you could have figures
>dancing around built from strings of shifting blobs etc)

BVH files are text. You have to edit them a bit to make them readable
directly by POVRay because the BVH file uses tabs as separators and POV
requires comma separators, but you can do that with a text editor.

I'll post a sample to the binary scene file group later today.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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