Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Like Steve said: Times have moved on. We do not need anymore to rely
> solely on POV-Ray to create great scenes. Meshes, which I consider the
> greatest step forward since the creation of CSG, are much better created
> in other applications. Maybe some complex things are fun to be made in
> CSG, but if a version version renders a hundredfold faster, then the
> choice is clear. Consider for example Gilles Tran's MakeTree macro. An
> excellent piece of work, still very useful for single trees. But a forest?
> Just forget it. With an application like POV-Tree (and others), the macro
> has become obsolete (As Gilles says himself). And I could cite many other
> examples. So where would the limit be for images to be considered worth
> their inclusion into HOF?

... I don't know if what I say is hard to understand or I'm being *ignored*

I just said there's nothing wrong with using other tools, definitely nothing
wrong with using meshes in your scene. But I wouldn't "vote" for a scene
that was made *entirely* in other programs and fed to POV-Ray, using it as
just a raytracer; because it's *not* just a raytracer.

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