>Is there any add-on or include file or anything else that would allow one
to
>create a draping cloth of some sort?
>I want to use Povray 3.5.  I have tried the cloth.exe that Christoph
>provides but it doesn't seem to run (placed
>Cygwin1.dll in same directory but only a blank command window shows and
>nothing else.)
>
>I am posting another small really poor hand drawn representation of what
I'm
>trying to achieve.  I have tried heightfields
>but with no good results.
>
>Any ideas to work with 3.5 would be appreciated!

I just use trace() to find out where the object under the cloth is (in this
case a POSER figure).

Your hand drawn representation failed to arrive here.

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I'm sorry the the picture didn't come through.  Your example though looks
like the same idea.  Can you post any source showing how to do this or
is there a tutorial somewhere?  Thanks!

"Mike Williams" <eco### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
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> >Is there any add-on or include file or anything else that would allow one
> to
> >create a draping cloth of some sort?
> >I want to use Povray 3.5.  I have tried the cloth.exe that Christoph
> >provides but it doesn't seem to run (placed
> >Cygwin1.dll in same directory but only a blank command window shows and
> >nothing else.)
> >
> >I am posting another small really poor hand drawn representation of what
> I'm
> >trying to achieve.  I have tried heightfields
> >but with no good results.
> >
> >Any ideas to work with 3.5 would be appreciated!
>
> I just use trace() to find out where the object under the cloth is (in
this
> case a POSER figure).
>
> Your hand drawn representation failed to arrive here.
>
>
>
>
>

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Wasn't it Patrick Dugan who wrote:
>I'm sorry the the picture didn't come through.  Your example though looks
>like the same idea.  Can you post any source showing how to do this or
>is there a tutorial somewhere?  Thanks!

I'll post my source to text.scene-files, but without the poser figure
(because it's a 3.4 megabyte mesh2).

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
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> I'll post my source to text.scene-files, but without the poser figure
> (because it's a 3.4 megabyte mesh2).

Just curious...have you tried running it through Warp's Compressed Mesh
program? I wonder if it would go much smaller.

All the best,

Andy Cocker

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