You know... I can never start a thread when I want to... and now... :o)

Seriously, Lutz puts out a dman fine program- it's just that he's the
unwitting victim of me using MORAY as a keyframe generator for my
Tweener program, which needs to parse the scripted output (as I have no
access to the .MDL format) and so I NEED, I say I *NEED* to have
CONSISTENCY (sp) in the data so my Tweener program knows where to grab
digits from and how to place them in the heirarchy.  I just noticed that
a light wasn't tracking correctly in a little scene I made and then I
realized *why*.  I have yet to attach anything to the *camera* heaven
forbid and won't bother doing that! ;o)

I've been able to program around a LOT of the little oddities MORAY does
when it outputs scriptfiles but this one was too much for me to think of
a way to let my program figure out where to replace the light so it
tracked correctly in a particularly nasty CSG set that goes about 7
levels deep (due to joint needing to bend a certain way).

-er-  my only little point here is that my "Lazy" paragraph was more a
bow or a nod to Lutz' hard work.  From my perspective as an amateur
programmer I can only imagine the details Lutz must go through for moray
and I wanted him to realize that I wasn't coming across as a whiney
user- I've reg'ed v2.02 DOS and am "upgrading" to v2.5 in a bit, so I'm
behind the times with MORAY anyway!  :o)

-Peter

Alex Magidow wrote:
> 
> Hey, sorry, I was just expressing respect for a very nice member of the POV-Ray
> community. I, personally, upon running into a problem of similar complexity,
> given up pretty quickly, and not persevered quite as much as Dearmad did. I give
> him my complete respect, and I also give Moray my complete respect.
> 
> Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> 
> > BTW Moray is also a kind of fish, afaik.
> 
>  Actually, an eel...or a social no-no....
> 
> --
> Only I can prevent narcissism!

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Stuff for POLYRAY, some raytraced images, and
DTA can be found at:
http://www.europa.ccom/~dearmad

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