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2 Nov 2024 17:18:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov 2.2 and Crossroads  
From: Ken
Date: 1 Jan 2004 11:50:19
Message: <3FF45061.6C47671A@pacbell.net>
GreyBeard wrote:
> 
> Just a general question, before I drag the old 166 P2 out and try it.  Keith
> Rule's Crossroads, if I read the menu right, will convert POV 2.0 to other
> formats, which could make life a bit simpler for me.  I don't have 2.0, but
> have the 2.2 version that came with the Ray Tracing Creations book.  Were
> the changes between 2.0 and 2.2 enough that it would have problems?  Most of
> what I'll be doing consists mainly of primitives, I'm not into animations,
> all I want to do is import props into Poser so I can make the figures fit
> before I render in POV-Ray.  Poseray does a fair job of translating the
> Poser files to Pov, but it would be nice if I could see the prop I'm trying
> to make the figure fit, while I'm trying to make the figure fit.

Fundamentally there was no major difference between v2.0 and v2.2. Be aware,
however, that Crossroads will only read in a union of triangles and has no
ability to handle POV-Ray's internal primitives.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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