On 20/04/2014 11:06 AM, John Greenwood wrote:
> I have started a major PovRay project, the object of which is to make a series
> of animated images describing a novel transport system.
>
> These animations will include some human figures, see:
> http://www.john-greenwood.co.uk/PovRay/Crowd/
>
> but in these animations only the hardware of the transport system will move
> smoothly. The human figures will simply jump from one static pose to another.
>
> The hardware will move according to simple equations of motion, so in principle
> this should be straight forward to write them in PovRay, but a front end, where
> parameters can be controlled along a timeline, would be better.
>
> Is Moray the answer? It does not seem to be discussed much in the last few
> years.

Interesting project by the sound of it.

 From what I remember of Moray's animation system, it would be able to 
help. I've not used it much but it was similar to Bishop3d's and I have 
used that quite a bit.
Moray is free but unsupported. You will need to recreate your scene in 
Moray, though.
Bishop3d is not free (USD40) and unsupported. It does have an import 
function. Where it can parse a subset of PovRay objects and you can 
visualise them in 3D space.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

I solemnly promise to kick the next angle, I see.

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