JayHolly wrote in message <369A67F8.F40458EC@lineone.net>...
    I am new to Moray and POV and am having difficulty creating bent 
tubes. I am trying to model a Mountain bike handlebar and other "bendy 
stuff" such as the cables and frame. 
    Thanks in advance - Jayholly. 

If you want to model (not script) your objects, and also do this in a 
modeller that can export to Moray format, try TreeDesigner at 
http://www.algonet.se/~jhubert/TreeDesigner.

Although TD was meant for trees, a bike-frame can be easily created with 
TD.

Note: TD does not model "real" curved/bent objects, but rather 
approaches "bendedness" by putting together lots of cylinders: The more 
(and shorter) cylinders, the higher the "resolution" of the "pipe" and 
the less visible (and soon invisible) it is, that the pipe is assembled 
out of lots of small straight cylinders (actually the same concept as it 
underlies the usage of triangle-meshes to create smooth shaped objects: 
The more triangles, the smoother...)

Greetings,

Johannes.

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