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  Re: A beginner's first Questions!  
From: ErI
Date: 10 Jun 2000 21:59:01
Message: <3942f265$1@news.povray.org>
I have HamaPatch and sPatch and I use them both because they each are
similar but they also have differences that I find useful!  But thanks for
the help!! :)

Sincerely,
Ed


"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:39425615@news.povray.org...
> "ErI" <fre### [at] fusenet> wrote in message
> news:3941c0c3$1@news.povray.org...
> | First off I'd like to say hello to everybody.  Now for the questions....
> |
> | 1.  Is POV-Raytracer like C++ and Visual Basic in regards to it having
it's
> | "own" programming language?
>
> I'll let others answer this one (it both is and isn't a "programming
> language").
>
> | 2.  If so how can I learn to "program" POV?
> |      ( I can't find any literature on the language itself)
>
> Likewise this one too (how about the povray31.doc?).
>
> |   I created a wireframe object using sPatch and previewed it with
sPatch's
> | OpenGL preview renderer.  It looked great!  Then I exported it into
.pov!  I
> | then rendered it with POV and it looked horrible.
>
> Don't know why that would be.  It seems to have always done well enough
for
> me; in fact I've seen a worse preview than actual end output.  Might want
to
> check into using HamaPatch, a sPatch alternative:
> http://www.crosswinds.net/~hamapatch/
>
> Bob
>
>
>


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