>> Could one do some "sloppy" modelling first with povray primitives and 
>> then
>> have it go to mesh and then to ssd mesh?
> 
> I just wrote some macros which output POV-Primitives as Mesh. Using 
> those you could propably do it.

Well, i just checked this, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. 
The problem is that my macros only output to mesh-unions and what we 
would need are mesh-merges. Therefore you could use the NSSS on a 
single primitive out of my macros, but not on a whole model based on 
them, because the NSSS would still subdivide each of its primitives 
independently from the others.
As far as I know, mesh merging is not that easy and I don't think that 
I will implement it, cause I made the macros for a totally different 
purpose. But if anyone comes up with a nice algorithm I'd be pleased 
to implement it :)

Florian
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