POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : I need help with triscan! : Re: I need help with triscan! Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:24:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I need help with triscan!  
From: Steven Durham
Date: 27 Mar 2000 20:13:09
Message: <38e00725@news.povray.org>
What is triscan? if this has been covered elswhere, please point the way.
thanks
Steven

Charles Fusner <cfu### [at] enternet> wrote in message
news:38DFF17A.89AD9C6A@enter.net...
> Charles Fusner wrote:
> > but I have to admit I haven't tried the dome plugin yet. (I
> > wanted to research it more before I wrote this, but my ISP is
> > having intermittant service outages and I don't even know when I'll
> > be able to send this) If the plugin does what it does with
> > triangle meshes (which is possible),
>
> Okay, --- FINALLY! --- I have normal internet access back (took
> them long enough) so I downloaded the dome generator, and tested
> with a randomly generated dome. They DO have triangle meshes in
> them... although they are not altogether a mesh like I expected.
> Apparently anything the plugin can do with non-meshes, it does,
> but sometimes, you'll have a mesh{...} object in the dome union,
> so that's most probably the cause of the triscan crash. Open
> your .pov file in a text editor, and do a text search for all
> occurances of the keyword "mesh", replacing it with "union" and
> you should be able to scan it.
>
> Hmmm... very interesting plugin, too.
>
> Charles


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