Hello tracers. I recently downloaded blender to give it a whirl in 
modeling. I'd still like to render things with povray though. On first 
look it seems like it would be easiest to save as DXF and find a 
converter. I havn't been able to find any dxf to povray converters. 
freeware, as this is just for a hobby. I have found python packages that 
are supposedly for blender specific and exporting to povray usable 
meshes, but i havn't been able to get any of those to work. I'm trying 
to do this under linux. Anything on the links page on povray.org has 
either been a broken link (dxf2pov for example) or not really just a 
converter but a software package that i'd have to buy. the 3DWin line of 
converters has a 3dto3d source code package but it again looks not free.

So does anyone have any experience on using blender modeled scenes with 
povray? i'm using blender 2.25 as found on blender.org's download 
section and povray 3.5.

thanks,
ross


p.s. if this is too off-topic, feel free to let me know and i'll throw 
it in the off topic group, or maybe the unix group?

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I've never rendered Blender models in POV, but (shameless plug):

Goto http://autocad2pov.povray.co.uk, on the downloads page and download the
OLD package at the bottom of the page(it converts dxf to POV 3.1 or
MegaPOV).  Maybe that will work for you.

"ross litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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> Hello tracers. I recently downloaded blender to give it a whirl in
> modeling. I'd still like to render things with povray though. On first
> look it seems like it would be easiest to save as DXF and find a
> converter. I havn't been able to find any dxf to povray converters.
> freeware, as this is just for a hobby. I have found python packages that

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Try here
http://home.europa.com/~keithr/free.htm
and look for wc2pov27.zip  400k+

It handles dxf2pov but I can't rememder if it is Windows specific.

Alf

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I asked this same question a while back (week ago maybe) and didn't get much
of an answer.

What I found that worked was Crossroads
http://www.onlinemac.com/users/rickhowd/xroads1.zip

It's freeware, but I think only works with windows.  Big advantage though it
that it wil produce smoth triangle.  something that I've not been able to
find anywhere else.

There are also some python scripts designed to be run in the Blender
envrioment, but the one for Povray seems to have a bug.  At least I couldn't
get it to work.

If you find a good solution, or figure out the secret to the Python scripts
please post to this thread, because I'd like to know what you did.

JFMILLER

"ross litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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> Hello tracers. I recently downloaded blender to give it a whirl in
> modeling. I'd still like to render things with povray though. On first
> look it seems like it would be easiest to save as DXF and find a
> converter. I havn't been able to find any dxf to povray converters.
> freeware, as this is just for a hobby. I have found python packages that
> are supposedly for blender specific and exporting to povray usable
> meshes, but i havn't been able to get any of those to work. I'm trying
> to do this under linux. Anything on the links page on povray.org has
> either been a broken link (dxf2pov for example) or not really just a
> converter but a software package that i'd have to buy. the 3DWin line of
> converters has a 3dto3d source code package but it again looks not free.
>
> So does anyone have any experience on using blender modeled scenes with
> povray? i'm using blender 2.25 as found on blender.org's download
> section and povray 3.5.
>
> thanks,
> ross
>
>
> p.s. if this is too off-topic, feel free to let me know and i'll throw
> it in the off topic group, or maybe the unix group?
>

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By the way,  I'm finding Blender to be an execelent and Free (speach and
beer) modeling tool.  A good mesh modler is an invaluable tool with POVray.
If someone with more programming experence then I have could create an
intelegent conversion tool from Blender to PSDL even if only for mesh
objects, I believe it would be of great value to the community.

JFMILLER

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