The new animation plug in is great, but is there anyway to get full Pov
support for it.  Polyray doesn't seem to support Media, or the spray.inc
plug in.  Maybe I'm wrong.

Craig

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It does support Media - make sure the "volume" checkbox is active in
raytracing.  Note that you may have to play with the step sizes and
number of steps to get good results.  Polyray doesn't use the same
technique for evaluating volumetrics as POV-Ray.

I'll look at the .mdl file to help with any media questions.

Polyray doesn't provide much support for other plugins.  Especially ones
that rely on .inc files.

As far as full POV-Ray support (for animation), that's just not a real
high priority right now.  It would be a lot of work to get it working
well and that time would be taken away from things I'd rather be doing.

Xander



Tim Sharp wrote:
> 
> The new animation plug in is great, but is there anyway to get full Pov
> support for it.  Polyray doesn't seem to support Media, or the spray.inc
> plug in.  Maybe I'm wrong.
> 
> Craig

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Hi Xander,

   I know this is completely off topic but you are to the best of my
 knowlege the person with the best understanding of Pov's intenal
 abilities with regards to reading and processing image files.

   A user requested info yesterday in .general about problems with
 using the transmit all and filter all function when used with .tga
 files. I discovered in the docs where is states that the .tga file
 format is not supported for these modifiers. It lists .png, .gif and
 .iff image files as the only types supported. However when I went to
 test this I discovered that 16m color 24 bit .png files were ignored
 when the modifiers were used on them. I resaved my example in 256 color
 8 bit format and it worked as expected.

   Is this a limitation with the transmit/filter all modifiers in regards
 to using anything more than the 8 bit 256 color resolution modes of the
 supported file types ?


   Would it be problematic to add extended functionality so as to support
 higher resolution image files ?


   If it is possible how much internal code would likely have to be modified
 to add this extended functionality ?


   I'm not really pushing for this addition but I am curious in case the issue
 comes up again and would like to be able to answer with an informed reply.


 Thank you for your time.


 Regards,

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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