On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:41:29 +0000, Ben Hamatake <ham### [at] trilobytenet>
wrote:

Hi,

sorry for the confusion:

3dto3d V4 beta is already available.
3DWin V4 will come very soon.

Both have pov/mdl/udo and rib support.

Thomas


>Exporting pov would be wonderful.  Thank you for your help.  Please let me
>know when beta V4 is out. : ben### [at] softhomenet
>Thanks All for your help!!!
>
>Thomas Baier wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> >> Wait a week or so.  I'm planning to post an exporter for RIB files.
>> >
>> >Do you think that RIB is the right format? I know few about it; yet it
>> >seems that its structure is quite complex.
>> >And it's supported by few programs (not 3dwin, for example, which
>> >makes it unsuitable I think).
>>
>> 3dto3d V4 beta supports pov export as well rib export including uv,
>> texture and images. Better than Polytrans !
>>
>> 3DWin V4 will come very soon.
>>
>> >
>> >If I'm right that RIB is a polygon based format, (i.e. NOT solid
>> >modelling), wouldn't 3DS or Wavefront OBJ (supported by Java3D
>> >directly ;-) ) be a better choice?
>> >
>> >I can send you a specification Doc for Wavefront OBJ, which is a quite
>> >simple format, and which I can recommend a lot...
>> >
>> >> Doesn't handle all prims,
>> >
>> >May I guess... no plugin objects, UDO, infinite objects... just like
>> >PolyRay?
>> >
>> >Florian
>> >
>>
>> Thomas Baier

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