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8 Jul 2024 07:44:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov-Ray 3.5 - the Yeti has been sighted!  
From: Jamie Davison
Date: 3 Sep 2001 14:20:52
Message: <MPG.15fddb1f2fea9a2e9899da@news.povray.org>
> >As far as the new features go, I'm not too excited about them because
> I
> >talk to POV only through Moray and until I can tell Moray to use
> Sphere
> >sweeps (the most interesting new feature IMO) then I'll just keep
> >thinking in 3.1g terms...
> 
> Just a suggestion here, if you don't mind (assuming that you don't
> already know this - a bit doubtful. Also that I've understood
> sphere_sweeps correctly.): Perhaps you could use Hamapatch (&export to
> Moray using the sPatch plugin) Hamapatch can use the amloft plugin
> (basically made for Animation Master) for stuff like skinning,
> extruding_along_path etc to reproduce the sphere_sweep effect (to an
> extent).
> 
> Another alternative would be softy3d (www.softy3d.com : exports to
> megapov/pov/dxf among others).
> 
> Hope this helps (and that you haven't already known & rejected this
> :-))

Nope I haven't even thought about it since I'm thinking in 3.1g terms :)

But thanks for the info, I may look at it eventually, although I prefer 
to stay within only one app as much as possible.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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