Cameron Cooper wrote:
> 
> Hey, I'm fairly new to this stuff ( this stuff being raytracing, modelling,
> ect ) I've read so many times that its better to learn the pov-ray code
> before you start using modellers...I've read what I could understand of the
> Pov-ray documentation, but in it there seems ( to me anyway ) that there is
> a gap between the basics ( basic shapes, cameras, lights that sort of
> stuff ) and  more advanced ( for a begginer anyway :) shapes
>  patches,blobs, ect ) im sure all this will come clear to me with time and
> practice, luckily time is all i seem to have....one upside to being a bum :)
> Anyway I've learned some of the basic code, then i downloaded spatch, moray,
> and an export from spatch to moray and have been able to make some pretty
> cool stuff ( compared to red sphere on a checker plane i started off with :)
> At this point with the modellers it seems like "re-inventing the wheel"
> learning all the pov code....for me "this point" is fairly basic...once it
> gets more advanced is there heaps you can do with the pov code that a
> modeller cant do?
> 
> sorry about the "longness" of this :)
Yes, there are indeed things that you can do in POV code and not in a
modeller. For example I don't hink any of the modellers use the new
patches functions, so to be able to (ab)use any of those you'd have to
know enough pov code to integrate the new and the old. 

There is also the limitation of any for om programming, macros and other
things in that area that the modellers lack. Then comes the 'fine
tuning' that I so far haven't seen done directly from a modeller. Ofc.
it might be possible now, but last time I tried the common goods, there
wasnt one with a great texture/light handling system, wich the code is.

The code offers far more flexibility and creativity than the modeller
does, though the modeller is needed for some tasks (I don't want to
model meshes directly!) 



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