Gee!! This is a good piece of work, Thomas!
I certainly think it is a useful utility, together with the Ambidex one.
So.. please post it, yes!

One question though, as I am really stupid with Java ! How do you start the
ambidex2.class utility??? And your new one when it is finished?

Thanks!!!

Thomas de Groot


"Thomas Lake" <tla### [at] REMOVE-THISshawca> schreef in bericht
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> After more hours of work here is my 3rd app:-) I think this one is
actually
> useful. What it does is take any mesh defined in a file in the pov-ray
mesh
> standard and creates an INC and UDO file so the mesh can be imported into
> moray and rendered along side anything else in moray. For example take a
> look at the chess.inc file in the Pov-Ray 3.1 example scene files. This
file
> contains a mesh of 2 chess pieces a rook and a knight. Normally you would
be
> stuck if you wanted to import these into a Moray scene because there are
no
> converters, to my knowledge, that import pov-ray files. However my until
> creates a perfectly good UDO and accompanying INC file which you can
import
> right into Moray. Just take a look at the images bellow. The 747 is a 3Ds
> Max file I converted to a pov-ray mesh and then converted to a INC/UDO
using
> my app. I've also tested this on some very complex objects I created in
> Rhinoceros and it works fine. Now for Rhinoceros its not of much use since
> it already exports to Moray. However for those who do not have it this may
> be useful. I can also see using this until to import meshes created by
> pov-ray macro's, it also automatically converts the meshes from Pov-Ray's
> left handed coordinate system to Moray's right handed system. As you can
> tell I'm quite proud of myself with this little creation seeing as I have
> almost 0 experience working with meshes and its only my 3rd or 4th
> program:-) There are some limitations to this app still, seeing as I wrote
> it in about 4 hours. The major ones are:
>
> -No texture support that is it ignores all textures in the original
pov-ray
> mesh file, you can of course texture the mesh in Moray.
> -No polygon/edge reduction. Every vertex is connected directly to the last
> without checking if the edge already exists, this means my app creates
2 -3
> times more edges than rhinoceros or 3dwin. This is of course only for the
> UDO.
> -Objects named automatically, eg Object0,Object1.... etc.
>
> If anyone thinks my app is actually useful I can post it in p.b.u. And try
> to work on some of the above.
>
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