"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> > Unfortunately, it appears that there is no simple solution (unless you
> > consider post-processing to be a solution).
> >
> > I came across this article which describes exactly the problem that I'm
> > having, and now I'm slightly depressed:
> > http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/TheShadowLineArtifact/index.html
> >
> It's a little discouraging.  Another answer, possibly, is to to get a
> little more familiar with mesh editing tools and what free editors are
> available that will load Poser .obj files ( Wings will sometimes, but
> not reliably ) and just subdivide and smooth the ***p out of the model
> before converting to SDL.  I mean what's the alternative, to not make
> the picture you want?

Yeah, maybe I'll try subdividing.  Mostly, I was just playing around, but I
got a simple scene in my head, and thought I'd see how it worked.  Harsh
shadows were part of the effect that I wanted.  *sigh*

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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