first, a work around for the adding to an existing tex lib is to copy all
textures in the library to your current scene and then export them all over the
top of the original.  what i suggest is that you make a new library with a
generic name like lib01, lib02 etc, for each scene which contains textures you
want to save and then after you have a few, make an empty scene, copy the
textures you want from each and export to a new library with a meaningful name.
ex: if i recently worked on a few space scenes, and saved each scene's textures
as lib01... i would collect them all and save them as MySpaceTex or something.
sort of a pain, but if you actually do the lib01... stuff, then when you go to
export to a permanent file you may notice that some of your textures weren't as
good as you thought and therefore weed them out.  oh, well, i've gone on way too
long about this.

your second point, deleteing materials is obvious given the above.

third, image mapping.  you'll have to use MegaPov for u,v image mapping and code
it by hand.  it's not super hard once your models are built, but it would be
easier in an editor like moray.

an item i wish was in moray:  the ability to add lines to pov and inc output
that would not be erased each time you make a new save.  for example, if i want
to use megapov, i have to wait until the very end of scene construction and then
add the needed lines by hand.  not a big deal until i realize i need to change
something in moray.  okay, i just need to add the megapov stuff one more time.
oops, there's one more detail i need to fix in moray... you can see how this can
get tedious.  it would also allow for use of any features in any version of
pov.  it would be easy to implement as a comment line could be added before and
after to tell moray to leave it alone.

thanks for letting me ramble.

ryan

Pascal Golay wrote:

> Hi all- OK, I shelled out for the registration- the possibilities in
> Moray/POV seem like they are pretty good. Here are a couple of things that
> seem to me so far to be not as good as they could be, though it could well
> be I haven't found how to do this yet- I hope someone will jump up and let
> me know if the functionality is there somewhere.
>
> - It looks like I cannot add materials to an existing material library, is
> that correct? This is a pretty major bottleneck in productivity over here-
> it really only makes sense to be able to develop a new material and then be
> able to drop it into the approptiate library for later use. Along similar
> lines it also looks as though I cannot delete materials from existing
> libraries. One of the default libraries that ships with Moray has a dozen or
> so of what looks to me like the same magenta material under different names
> and I cannot seem to get rid of them. Compounding the problem the material
> libraries don't look very amenable to text editing.
>
> - Image mapping does not seen to be very flexible... for example there does
> not seem to be a way to repeat an image x number of times in one direction
> (U or V) and not another, so if I have a pattern that repeats around a
> cylindrical object 3 times but only once along it's axis. I have to make a
> very long skinny image that repeats three times and use the whole thing on
> the surface. This makes it quite time consuming to make adjustments.
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment...
>
> -Pascal

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