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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 20 Jan 2009 12:54:15
Message: <49760fc7@news.povray.org>

> "Woody" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> Forgive my ignorance, what program did you use to convert from 3ds. Is it
>> free/open source I currently only know of one shareware program, and I am not
>> particularly keen on using it since it goes against my hippie philosophy of
>> promoting open source.
> 
> I guess you're not running Windows; otherwise I could recommend - without
> thinking - two free tools that do both 3ds import and POV export: Wings 3D and
> PoseRay.
> 
> For Linux, you may want to try the Wine / PoseRay combo. PoseRay claims to be
> running perfectly fine on Wine. Cheers!
> 
> 

   Wings3d works nicely on Linux too... and for me the current POV exporter 
does a good job on the geometry, although it could be more "edit-friendly".

--
Jaime


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