That has nothing to do with the process you used to export, actually- the RIB export
plugin has a bit of trouble with cones...and cylinder should work, last I
checked...The RIB exporter doesn't really cover all the Moray primitives, mostly
because the set of Moray primitives differs with the set of Renderman primitives.

Thomas Lake wrote:

> Wow thanks for this info!! I tried it out and it "sort of" works. I tried
> exporting a few primitives, box, cylinder, cone each scaled and rotated by an
> arbitrary amount. I first used the RIB exporter and then used the Lily program to
> convert to DXF. When I opened the DXF file in Rhino it had the box and sphere
> right but the other shapes were just displayed as flat discs. Still it's nice to
> see that there is finally SOME way to do this!!!
>
> Alex Magidow wrote:
>
> > Ken wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas Lake wrote:
> > >
> > > > either. Does anyone know if there is ANY other way to export from Moray
> > > > or convert from Pov-Ray 3.1??
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > Yes. Actually, Xander has written a rudimentary RIB export plugin. RIB, being
> > less of a handscripted language than POV-Ray is easier to convert to other
> > formats. On the POV-Ray links page, there is a program by the name of lily8.
> > That will convert RIB files from RIB to DXF and other formats, IIRC. The only
> > limitations on this are that the RIB export plugin doesn't support many
> > features of Moray yet. And you won't have any of your texturing, but at least
> > you keep the geometry.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> > > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
> >
> > --
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> > taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship
> > of capital.... In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the
> > supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are
> > being used to establish a doctrine of repression...."
> > - Christian la Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris)
>
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 " [T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking
possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital....
In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new
world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a
doctrine of repression...."
- Christian la Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris)

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