Hi @ all,

I use moray 3..3 to get some nice logos for my coverart.
i tried to use a special font (frozen dog treats) and moray
showed it as
exspected, but as i rendered the whole thing some of the

they were replaced by other characters, that not present in
this special font.
what did i wrong ?
does this appear to someone else ?
is this a moray or povray problem ?
or even a windows problem ?
thanks

hkn

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which version of povray are you using?  IIRC, pov 3.1 doesn't handle
fonts as well as megapov does.  i could be wrong though.  you can render
to megapov by putting the megapov exe in the same place as the pov exe,
changing the name of the pov exe to something else, and the name of
megapov to pov's original name.  that way all programs that call pov can
find it easily.
Hakan Kocaman wrote:
> 
> Hi @ all,

> I use moray 3..3 to get some nice logos for my coverart.
> i tried to use a special font (frozen dog treats) and moray
> showed it as
> exspected, but as i rendered the whole thing some of the

> they were replaced by other characters, that not present in
> this special font.
> what did i wrong ?
> does this appear to someone else ?
> is this a moray or povray problem ?
> or even a windows problem ?
> thanks
> 
> hkn

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:24 -0700, Ryan Constantine wrote...
> which version of povray are you using?  IIRC, pov 3.1 doesn't handle
> fonts as well as megapov does.  i could be wrong though.  you can render
> to megapov by putting the megapov exe in the same place as the pov exe,
> changing the name of the pov exe to something else, and the name of
> megapov to pov's original name.  that way all programs that call pov can
> find it easily.

Or you can use MegaPOV far more easily by pressing alt-F9, and changing 
the POV-ray executable to the megapov executabe of your choice without 
having to go through all the hassle of copying and renaming files...

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> schrieb im
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news:MPG.1553d46c239c2d4e9898ee@news.povray.org...
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:24 -0700, Ryan Constantine
wrote...
> > which version of povray are you using?  IIRC, pov 3.1
doesn't handle
> > fonts as well as megapov does.  i could be wrong though.
you can render
> > to megapov by putting the megapov exe in the same place
as the pov exe,
> > changing the name of the pov exe to something else, and
the name of
> > megapov to pov's original name.  that way all programs
that call pov can
> > find it easily.
>
> Or you can use MegaPOV far more easily by pressing alt-F9,
and changing
> the POV-ray executable to the megapov executabe of your
choice without
> having to go through all the hassle of copying and
renaming files...
>
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

Thanks to you two.


bye
hkn

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Hi Hakan Kocaman, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> i tried to use a special font (frozen dog treats) and moray
> showed it as > exspected, but as i rendered the whole thing some of the

POV-Ray may have trouble with the font, especially if the characters
you are using are above 128 ASCII. If you like, you can send me the
font file and the MDL file and I can take a look.

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

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the reason i prefer renaming is because other programs that use pov
don't have the dialog like moray does.  for example, texture view looks
only for pvengine.exe.  so if you were to try to render a megapov
texture it wouldn't work.  so to be safe, i do the renaming game. :)

Jamie Davison wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:24 -0700, Ryan Constantine wrote...
> > which version of povray are you using?  IIRC, pov 3.1 doesn't handle
> > fonts as well as megapov does.  i could be wrong though.  you can render
> > to megapov by putting the megapov exe in the same place as the pov exe,
> > changing the name of the pov exe to something else, and the name of
> > megapov to pov's original name.  that way all programs that call pov can
> > find it easily.
> 
> Or you can use MegaPOV far more easily by pressing alt-F9, and changing
> the POV-ray executable to the megapov executabe of your choice without
> having to go through all the hassle of copying and renaming files...
> 
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:43:28 -0700, Ryan Constantine wrote...
> the reason i prefer renaming is because other programs that use pov
> don't have the dialog like moray does.  for example, texture view looks
> only for pvengine.exe.  so if you were to try to render a megapov
> texture it wouldn't work.  so to be safe, i do the renaming game. :)

Whatever works for you, but the only real POV application I use is Moray, 
so I find the alt-F9 trick works well for me.

(or, what I really think)

Masochist...

<grin>

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
news:MPG.155558dfe5cf4e079898f3@news.povray.org...
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:43:28 -0700, Ryan Constantine
wrote...
> > the reason i prefer renaming is because other programs
that use pov
> > don't have the dialog like moray does.  for example,
texture view looks
> > only for pvengine.exe.  so if you were to try to render
a megapov
> > texture it wouldn't work.  so to be safe, i do the
renaming game. :)
>
> Whatever works for you, but the only real POV application
I use is Moray,
> so I find the alt-F9 trick works well for me.
>
> (or, what I really think)

Thanks for your help :)
I tried the "renaiming"-method and it worked fine,
is this also an easy way to upgrade to other enginges ? nice
:~)

by the font
are their maybe special 3d-fonts to use with moray, i
searched at povray, but found nothing.
maybe i try another way
by hkn


> Masochist...
>
> <grin>
>
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

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"Lutz Kretzschmar" <lut### [at] stmuccom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi Hakan Kocaman, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> > i tried to use a special font (frozen dog treats) and
moray
> > showed it as > exspected, but as i rendered the whole
thing some of the

> POV-Ray may have trouble with the font, especially if the
characters
> you are using are above 128 ASCII. If you like, you can
send me the
> font file and the MDL file and I can take a look.


Thanks,

window-integrated.

:~)

is art really fun :~)
bye
HKN

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> Thanks for your help :)
> I tried the "renaiming"-method and it worked fine,
> is this also an easy way to upgrade to other enginges ? nice

It's a way to use other, patched and third party compiled versions of 
POV, but it wouldn't allow you to use another renderer which isn't 100% 
POV code compliant.

> :~)

> by the font
> are their maybe special 3d-fonts to use with moray, i
> searched at povray, but found nothing.
> maybe i try another way
> by hkn

If you want to post the .mdl files and the offending font fil in 
moray.binaries, I'll have a look at it and see if I can spot anything 
obviously wrong with it.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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