Thomas,
GREAT comments .. am working through all the replies.

I have posted V1.1.1 of the plugin that should give us options for the
Browse button.  See the announce post for V1.1.1.

To address the other points.

1. I agree.  I have made that an entry in my to-do list.  I must admit that
I am a newbie to Moray and POV-Ray ... on a 1-10 scale of Ray tracing
skills, I am about a 3 (10 being good).  As such, I am relying on y'all to
tell me WHAT should be said and done.  Let me know and I will attempt to
include in the Plugin.

2. I like this and can include very quickly.  My question for you and the
rest of the gang ... is this all that is needed?  If I include a check box
(called what?  "Orient" perhaps?) then if I add:

union
{
   #include <filename>
   scale <1,1,-1>
   rotate <90,0,0>
}

When selected ... is this what you want?

3. I'd love to be able to determine the bounding box but don't know how yet
(if at all possible).

4. Grouping is still a bit of work in progress.  Moray Groups work but not
yet CSGs.  If you add a "POVInclude" to a Moray Group, all should be good.

When added to a group, the following code is generated:

#declare POVInclude1 = union {
  #include ""
}

union { // Group001
  object { POVInclude1 }
}

5. Thanks my friend!!

Neil

"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message
news:41cfdd4e@news.povray.org...
> Hello Neil,
>
> First, please, note that I use the latest official build of Moray, and
> export to POV-Ray 3.5 (as version 3.6 is less compatible with Moray). All
> that under Windows ME.
>
> I have noted a number of things:
>
> Bugs:
> The Browse button does not work here. Everything else works fine J
>
> Comments (in no particular order):
> 1. I think it worthwhile to mention in the docs that the included
object(s)
> should be Moray-oriented. This may sound obvious, but I started
> unconsciously to build an object in POV-Ray, with POV-Ray orientation,
> before I realised that I had to transform it. J .or:
> 2. Could there be such an option built into the plugin? Selecting that
> button would automatically transform the object to Moray space (scale
> <1,1,-1> rotate <90,0,0>). This would be useful for already existing
objects
> normally used in POV-Ray.
> 3. In order to adjust correctly the corners of the wireframe box, one has
to
> determine the object's bounding limits. For complex objects, I have been
> wondering if this was possible to do automatically? Not in Moray I guess;
I
> rapidly browsed the POV docs, but could not find anything addressing this.
> But I may have missed it.
> 4. Question: How do you group multiple objects inside the union (page 7,
> last line, of the docs)?
> 5. The plugin is very useful indeed. It is now possible to place or adjust
> an external object with far better precision into a Moray scene, and see
the
> results in the camera window.
>
> That's it for now, I think.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>

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