I'm not an artist (actually I'm more interested in game programming) but
I love this Moray program. I studied all the included tutorials and now
I'm able to do some decent models. But I want to learn more about Bezier
Patches, Sweeps and other "tools". I have studied the POV-Ray help file,
so I don't need help in the technical stuff. What I need is something
like "Learn how to do 3D models" :)
If you know books or web sites that can be useful for better Moray
modeling please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

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|        Cristian Ramirez        |
| mailto:ram### [at] entelchilenet |
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|      Gregorio Maranon 1380     |
|          Vina del Mar          |
|             CHILE              |
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Cristian Ramirez wrote:
> 
> I'm not an artist (actually I'm more interested in game programming) but
> I love this Moray program. I studied all the included tutorials and now
> I'm able to do some decent models. But I want to learn more about Bezier
> Patches, Sweeps and other "tools". I have studied the POV-Ray help file,
> so I don't need help in the technical stuff. What I need is something
> like "Learn how to do 3D models" :)
> If you know books or web sites that can be useful for better Moray
> modeling please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> +--------------------------------+
> |        Cristian Ramirez        |
> | mailto:ram### [at] entelchilenet |


 Use the link below to see my FAQ of Pov related tutorials. While not
Moray specific it is a good list of online learning material that covers
many of the different object types and behaviors.

  If anybody out there knows of Moray specific tutorials please let me
know so I can add them to the list. It seems half of the people using
Pov-Ray also use Moray as an interface so I might as well include Moray
related material in the list as well.

http://www.povray.org/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article&group=povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions&item=7


Thank you,

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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A person once said, "You learn more from a journey than you do from reaching
your destination(Unless your destination lies directly on a coordinate
plane, and you have some idea about what the coordinates are, in which case
reaching the destination is so fast you don't learn anything in the
process)"

I, personally, found the best way to learn to use Moray/POV-Ray and the many
other programs that I use to create models for them, is to JUST KEEP TRYING!
Tutorials are great, I understand, and I have used tehm myself for refrence.
But I think the best way, if not the fastest, is to just keep
experimenting(Definitely not the fastest...took me some 7 months of casual
raytracing to grasp all of Moray 3.0's features. Then, out came 3.1...DOE!)
Progressing from primitive and CSG based modeling to mesh based modeling is
a bit of a start. After you have learned how creative you can be with simple
primitives, once you start using meshes, it becomes even easier to create
good looking object, because you know how to be creative with what you have.
If you have any questions, just feel free to ask away, and you will probably
get some help.

Eventually, you may realize taht there are POV-Based utilities for pretty
much everything out there("The food.inc file. Specify breakfast, lunch, or
supper, and the food groups involved....") So, if you ever need an object,
and just don't have any idea how to model it, do an internet search, or ask
on this NG, or on comp.graphic.rendering.raytracing.

Cristian Ramirez wrote:

> I'm not an artist (actually I'm more interested in game programming) but
> I love this Moray program. I studied all the included tutorials and now
> I'm able to do some decent models. But I want to learn more about Bezier
> Patches, Sweeps and other "tools". I have studied the POV-Ray help file,
> so I don't need help in the technical stuff. What I need is something
> like "Learn how to do 3D models" :)
> If you know books or web sites that can be useful for better Moray
> modeling please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> +--------------------------------+
> |        Cristian Ramirez        |
> | mailto:ram### [at] entelchilenet |
> |                                |
> |      Gregorio Maranon 1380     |
> |          Vina del Mar          |
> |             CHILE              |
> +--------------------------------+



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