I don't know anything about the raw format. Any info?

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   I don't know anything about the raw format. Any info?

The raw format is the simplest 3d format in the world and is in fact very
similar to the POV-Ray triangle only it is missing the punctuation.

A pov triangle looks like this -

triangle{<1,2,3>,<4,5,6>,<7,8,9>}

in raw format it looks like this -

1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9

3DWin can also read smooth raw triangles in the same format as above
if you add the smoothing control vectors.

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How do I specify that the triangle is smooth? How do I specify the number
of triangles?

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Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote in message
news:38709980@news.povray.org...
>   How do I specify that the triangle is smooth? How do I specify the
number
> of triangles?

I think:

number of triangles: one triangle on each line
smooth: If the line has 9 numbers, it is not smooth (only vertex info), if
it has 18 (?) numbers, it is smooth (vertex + direction-vector info).

Johannes.

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Johannes Hubert wrote:
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> Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote in message
> news:38709980@news.povray.org...
> >   How do I specify that the triangle is smooth? How do I specify the
> number
> > of triangles?
> 
> I think:
> 
> number of triangles: one triangle on each line
> smooth: If the line has 9 numbers, it is not smooth (only vertex info), if
> it has 18 (?) numbers, it is smooth (vertex + direction-vector info).
> 
> Johannes.

That is how I understand it to work. You just have to make sure that there
is only one line of data for each triangle in the mesh object.

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Ah, then it's very simple. I have to test it.

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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:04:40 +0100, Karl Pelzer
<Kar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

Hi,

i would suggest that the compressed mesh generator reads *.raw.
It would be a little beside the philosophy of 3DWin to directly
support such a special feature like pcm, but it would be technicaly no
problem to implement.

As i said: please contact Warp to implment the *.raw reader.
If that works please come back to me (tho### [at] stmuccom) and we
will discuss the 3DWin integration.

>I tested Warp's Mesh Compressor and I find it very useful for large
>Meshes (produced by LParser).
>It would be useful to create a sourrounding scene with Moray. But since
>Moray can't handle PCM-Files I have to tweak the resulting code by hand.
>I would highly appreciate the capability to handle PCM objects just like
>UDO objects.
>

-tb

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Hi Nieminen Juha, you recently wrote in moray.win:

>   How do I specify that the triangle is smooth? How do I specify the number
> of triangles?
Johannes and Ken have answered that, I just wanted to add that an
empty line or a line containing a string can be used to seperate (with
the string, named) subgroups in a RAW file.
- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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On the other hand, this kind of converter could be easyly made with
povray itself...
  Just read the PCM and write the triangles to a file in the proper format.
  Is there really a need for support of this format in the mesh compressor
program?

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Thomas Baier <NOS### [at] stmuccom> wrote:
: As i said: please contact Warp to implment the *.raw reader.
: If that works please come back to me (tho### [at] stmuccom) and we
: will discuss the 3DWin integration.

  Yes, I will probably add support for the .raw format since it's so
extremely simple.

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