in news:web.4185357c35e28514944674e10@news.povray.org Randy wrote:

> 1) I'm not familiar with python scripts, so what do I do with the
>    text  file.

Before you can do anything with it you'll have to install Python
http://www.python.org 
Then from the directory where the script is you
can do something like this from the command prompt c:\...\> python
mesh22obj.py bigmeshfile.pov 

> 2) [...] However when I use meshes from Warps mesh compressor,
> these  files don' work as expected. I'm not really certain, but could
> this be because the compressed mesh doesn't contain the UVnormals. 

To be honest, I do not understand what you mean with this. Do you mean 
that compressed mesh files generated with param.inc don't work with 
Colefax' macro's. Do you mean that you can't convert the compressed mesh 
files with excel, or with the same excel script that you use to convert 
the .arr files? Or something else?

> I'm not really familiar with object files. I just chose this format 
> because the data is stored in a simple text format.

What is it you're trying to acheive with converting pov-mesh' to .obj or 
other files?

> Is it possible to carry UVIndices in Object files.

Yes.


Ingo

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