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I mentioned in my previous post that I had gone to using layers instead of
visibility settings to hide objects. Well along the same lines it would be
very helpful if you could not only hide all objects on a layer, which speeds
up display in moray, but also set whether all objects in that layer are
exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray. This makes sense because you
are usually placing objects that have some kind of logical connection with
each other on the same layer and so it would make sense to want to not
export that particular group of objects. For example I put very complex
objects like messy USO's on their own layer. This makes it very easy to
switch them off to speed up display in Moray, it would be similarly helpful
if I could switch them off in Pov-Ray, that is not export them, as these
same objects have a high rendering/time penalty.
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One thing about layers: Currently you can have an object assigned to
more than one layer (when you merge MDLs you can end up with a lot of
objects assigned to a lot of layers). How would you manage the
exporting of objects to POV in that case?
Stefan
On Tue, 7 May 2002 02:10:52 -0700, "Thomas Lake"
<tla### [at] REMOVE-THISshaw ca> wrote:
>I mentioned in my previous post that I had gone to using layers instead of
>visibility settings to hide objects. Well along the same lines it would be
>very helpful if you could not only hide all objects on a layer, which speeds
>up display in moray, but also set whether all objects in that layer are
>exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray. This makes sense because you
>are usually placing objects that have some kind of logical connection with
>each other on the same layer and so it would make sense to want to not
>export that particular group of objects. For example I put very complex
>objects like messy USO's on their own layer. This makes it very easy to
>switch them off to speed up display in Moray, it would be similarly helpful
>if I could switch them off in Pov-Ray, that is not export them, as these
>same objects have a high rendering/time penalty.
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> One thing about layers: Currently you can have an object assigned to
> more than one layer (when you merge MDLs you can end up with a lot of
> objects assigned to a lot of layers). How would you manage the
> exporting of objects to POV in that case?
Same way layer visibility conflicts are solved, not sure how they are
currently but however it's resolved the same would work for exporting.
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Hi Thomas Lake, you recently wrote in moray.win:
> ... but also set whether all objects in that layer are
> exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray.
The reason why this was not implemented from the start, is the same
reason why only top-level objects can be excluded from the export:
this can cause Moray to export a POV file that cannot be parsed and
I'm not sure I want to have to deal with the support issues that
arise. For example if the layer you want to not export has a object in
it that is referenced, POV-Ray will not be able to resolve the
reference.
Also, this may create incorrect CSG objects... if some objects in a
CSG are exported and some not.
- Lutz
email : lut### [at] stmuccom
Web : http://www.stmuc.com/moray
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> Hi Thomas Lake, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> > ... but also set whether all objects in that layer are
> > exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray.
> The reason why this was not implemented from the start, is the same
> reason why only top-level objects can be excluded from the export:
> this can cause Moray to export a POV file that cannot be parsed and
> I'm not sure I want to have to deal with the support issues that
> arise. For example if the layer you want to not export has a object in
> it that is referenced, POV-Ray will not be able to resolve the
> reference.
> Also, this may create incorrect CSG objects... if some objects in a
> CSG are exported and some not.
Ahh yes I can see that being a problem. No problem I just put all objects I
want to control exporting into one group.
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