Hi All,

A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......

http://users.zetnet.co.uk/keithh

Best Regards,

Keith

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Keith Hull wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......

I can't get any of them to work.

The instruction say the dll is all that's needed, but POV wants more
files. These are in the sub zip file, but where to put them?

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Hi Simon,

Just follow the instructions in the subzip file (Galaxy.htm and City.htm),
mainly you just put the .inc,.mcr, and .obj files in the Povray for
windows\include directory as you would for most include files, or put them
in a seperate directory but use the ini files in Pov or a command line
instruction to tell Pov where the files are. I must admit I assumed that
most people had already experimeted with Chris' Include files and probably
had them in the appropriate place. One other thing, moray sets the version
variable to 3 in the moray.ini file, you may/will have to change it to 3.1
(it's at the bottom of the moray.ini file in the moray for windows 3.1
directory.

Have fun,

Keith

Simon de Vet <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message
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>
>
> Keith Hull wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......
>
> I can't get any of them to work.
>
> The instruction say the dll is all that's needed, but POV wants more
> files. These are in the sub zip file, but where to put them?
>

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Thats really great keith. Is you columns plugin still just primitives,
or did you change it to Nathan O's?
Also, I'll be forever grateful if you make a moray plugin for the
compressed mesh/hair plugin!

Keith Hull wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......
>
> http://users.zetnet.co.uk/keithh
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Keith



--
You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
  You look at waterfalls, dust, rain, snow, etc, and think: "If only I
had a fractalized,
vector based particle-system modeler with collision detection..."

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Hi,

> A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......

They are really good!

But I've still got some suggestions.

1) In the city plugin, it would be REALLY nice if you drew some more
lines. If you just painted the roads into the box, as some
orientation. This should not be too difficult. You know everything
that is needed to calculate the road's positions, and you can even use
Chris' algorithms from the INC files!

2) It seems that scaling the city in Moray has no effect to the city
itself, but only to the box representing the city. This is bad!
I suggest you three solutions: (I don't know if it works but you may
try)
  a) Grey out the scaling fields of the city in Moray (if you can)
  b) Make the box's size independent on the scaling parameter (if you
can)
  c) (much better) Make the city scaleable! Just the object as a
whole. Should be easy. It's of course senseless to scale a city
unevenly, but that's not your problem.

Thank you for your help.

3) Problem in the INCs: POV always reported me that "#macro needs
#version 3.1 but #version 3.00 set". To solve this, i had to open
every .OBJ file and add a "#version 3.1" command at the top. I don't
know why. But I know that I certainly have POV 3.1 and, as Moray needs
POV 3.1 it would never set #version to 3.0! Any ideas?

Bye
  Florian Fischer

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Hi Florian,
I'll look into your suggestions, wrt the version issue just change the
version in the moray.ini file from 3 to 3.1 as per my previous post.

Best Regards,
Keith

Florian Fischer <flo### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3796D202.1B4885DF@gmx.de...
> Hi,
>
> > A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......
>
> They are really good!
>
> But I've still got some suggestions.
>
> 1) In the city plugin, it would be REALLY nice if you drew some more
> lines. If you just painted the roads into the box, as some
> orientation. This should not be too difficult. You know everything
> that is needed to calculate the road's positions, and you can even use
> Chris' algorithms from the INC files!
>
> 2) It seems that scaling the city in Moray has no effect to the city
> itself, but only to the box representing the city. This is bad!
> I suggest you three solutions: (I don't know if it works but you may
> try)
>   a) Grey out the scaling fields of the city in Moray (if you can)
>   b) Make the box's size independent on the scaling parameter (if you
> can)
>   c) (much better) Make the city scaleable! Just the object as a
> whole. Should be easy. It's of course senseless to scale a city
> unevenly, but that's not your problem.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> 3) Problem in the INCs: POV always reported me that "#macro needs
> #version 3.1 but #version 3.00 set". To solve this, i had to open
> every .OBJ file and add a "#version 3.1" command at the top. I don't
> know why. But I know that I certainly have POV 3.1 and, as Moray needs
> POV 3.1 it would never set #version to 3.0! Any ideas?
>
> Bye
>   Florian Fischer
>

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I got the galaxy plugin running, but the city plugin just results in a
blank screen. I remember a similar problem with the liquid spray plugin,
but I forget the solution...

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Hi Keith Hull, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> Just follow the instructions in the subzip file (Galaxy.htm and City.htm),
> mainly you just put the .inc,.mcr, and .obj files in the Povray for
> windows\include directory as you would for most include files, or put them
> in a seperate directory but use the ini files in Pov or a command line
> instruction to tell Pov where the files are. 
Another good place would be the same directory that Moray exports to
(POVSCN in the default distribution).

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Hi Florain,
I've added the Scale and rotate options - so now the city can be scaled and
rotated exactly like any ordinary object in Moray.

Get it while it's hot (0.3 beta 23/7/99)

Best Regards,

Keith

Florian Fischer <flo### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3796D202.1B4885DF@gmx.de...
> Hi,
>
> > A couple of new PlugIns for Moray at @ my Web Site......
>
> They are really good!
>
> But I've still got some suggestions.
>
> 1) In the city plugin, it would be REALLY nice if you drew some more
> lines. If you just painted the roads into the box, as some
> orientation. This should not be too difficult. You know everything
> that is needed to calculate the road's positions, and you can even use
> Chris' algorithms from the INC files!
>
> 2) It seems that scaling the city in Moray has no effect to the city
> itself, but only to the box representing the city. This is bad!
> I suggest you three solutions: (I don't know if it works but you may
> try)
>   a) Grey out the scaling fields of the city in Moray (if you can)
>   b) Make the box's size independent on the scaling parameter (if you
> can)
>   c) (much better) Make the city scaleable! Just the object as a
> whole. Should be easy. It's of course senseless to scale a city
> unevenly, but that's not your problem.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> 3) Problem in the INCs: POV always reported me that "#macro needs
> #version 3.1 but #version 3.00 set". To solve this, i had to open
> every .OBJ file and add a "#version 3.1" command at the top. I don't
> know why. But I know that I certainly have POV 3.1 and, as Moray needs
> POV 3.1 it would never set #version to 3.0! Any ideas?
>
> Bye
>   Florian Fischer
>

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Hmm..... Don't know whats going on here but there was a bug in the output
file which i've also fixed in the latest release, it may fix your problem
but then again maybe not ..... What does the output (.pov) text file show
and are there any messages in the Pov window?

Best Regards,

Keith

Simon de Vet <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message
news:3797834D.D1D21CE9@istar.ca...
> I got the galaxy plugin running, but the city plugin just results in a
> blank screen. I remember a similar problem with the liquid spray plugin,
> but I forget the solution...
>

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