Hi

I down loaded DMesh and had a quick play. It's very powerful and very
difficult to use!

The results look very good but similar to organica or other mesh modellers
which are far easier to use.

If you can make the UI friendly this program has a major contribution to
make to the Pov community.

Mick

Bruce <dke### [at] sksympaticoca> wrote in message
news:37B### [at] sksympaticoca...
> This is to announce the first public version of the DMesh Organic
> Modeller. The product was formerly titled OOM/BDL, but has been much
> revised and made available for public download.
>
> This is still a work in progress, and therefore missing many user
> interface features. The primary design focus was to make it work first,
> and make it pretty latter. There is an OpenGL preview mode, but most of
> the muscle defintions must be typed into dialog boxes. If you find the
> idea of creating POVray scenes by hand a horribly appalling idea, it may
> be best wait to until the UI version is available. :)
>
> I'm posting it in this state, in order to determine if interest levels
> would warrant additional development. If there is a reasonable amount of
> interest, then future development can focus towards creating a more
> user-oriented share-ware release. The program is not really as hard to
> use as it first appears, (easy for me to say,) but does have a bit of a
> learning curve on the 'concept' side. There is documentation, tutorials
> and sample files for download. These are first draft, so any comments or
> advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> At the present, this is a Win95 only product, (sorry LINUX user's,) but
> other OS's are being considered.
>
> Export Options
> - POVray: mesh and smooth mesh
> - RAW:    Vertex, normal and uv coordinates
> - RIB:    PointsPolygon, (preliminary SubdivisionMesh)
>
> It can also import height field images and export them as planar, conic,
> spheric or disc shaped meshes. Additional information can be found in
> the on-line documentation or by email.
>
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Bruce Lamming
> Home of Dmesh - The Organic Object Modeller.
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/4500
>

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