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  Re: Announce: 3DWin 4.3, a 3D file format converter, now with MegaPOV 0.6 support  
From: AC
Date: 8 Oct 2000 09:00:43
Message: <39e06ffb@news.povray.org>
"Halbert" <hha### [at] capitalnet> wrote in message
news:39dfcf89@news.povray.org...
> > > LightWave (*.lwo, *.lws)
> > > Quake MDL (*.mdl, *.md2)
> > >
> > I would wish that Pov was here as well.....
> >
>
> Indeed, it would be nice, but how would it be possible to convert things
> like planes (and other infinite objects), isosurfaces (coming in 3.5)
into
> triangles? Any curved surfaces would be degraded into triangles. How about
> textures, lighting? Blobs?
>
> It would be possible to have a utility that could convert mesh and mesh2
> objects into other file formats, though. I think it would be a nice
feature
> if some sort of binary triangle file could be read into POV. Anyone else
> tired of dealing with 30Mb include files?
>
> --
Im aware of some of the problems when it comes to converting from pov to
other formats. A wish is still a wish.
Pov has always been Pov.
Ambis


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