Finally, after so many years of laziness, I decided to enhance the
mesh compressor program to the POV-Ray 3.5 era. That is, it should
now have full support for mesh2's (reading and writing), as well
as uv-mapping in regular meshes.

  Chris Colefax is still working on the PCM macros and they are not
yet available, so you will only be able to test pov-pov and pov-pcm-pov
conversion. However, I think that most bugs should be possible to find
this way.

  Only Windows-version of the beta, sorry.
  (Oh dear, I would have never thought I would ever say something like
that, but... I'm not quite willing to publish the source before all the
most obvious bugs are fixed... Rest assured, however, that the
command-line version is extremely system-independent. :) )

  You can download the Windows beta version here:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/WinMeshcomp30_beta.zip

  (In case you don't have the slightest idea what this is all about, see
http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/pcm.html )

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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Warp wrote:

>   Finally, after so many years of laziness, I decided to enhance the
> mesh compressor program to the POV-Ray 3.5 era. That is, it should


Yee hah!  Very cool indeed.

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3fbd504e@news.povray.org...

>   Only Windows-version of the beta, sorry.

Excuses, excuses...

http://tinyurl.com/vykx

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:11:01 -0000, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:

>
>http://tinyurl.com/vykx
>
LOL

Regards
        Stephen

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Tom Melly wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3fbd504e@news.povray.org...
> 
> 
>>  Only Windows-version of the beta, sorry.
> 
> 
> Excuses, excuses...
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/vykx
> 
> 
> 
> 
Oh my goodness... that's hilarious. I want one.

--
Jonathan.

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Apparently the program is either completely bugless, or doesn't really
interest anyone...
  I hope it's the former. ;)

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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Warp wrote:
>   Apparently the program is either completely bugless, or doesn't really
> interest anyone...
>   I hope it's the former. ;)
> 
It worked nicely as far as I was able to make use of it.  Unfortunately 
I think I need to have the color carry through for my application 
(hair).  So, so far I am just using the plain mesh.  But the mesh2 would 
give me more memory to work with so the jury is still out on which way I 
will comprimise as I increase the number of triangles.

I don't suppose .obj to pcm would be possible?

The thing is that Greg Johnson wrote some interesting macros adapting 
the pcm hair macros to give Maya options that might be interesting to 
try.  But any modelling I do is exported in .obj among others. 
Crossroads works just fine for this so it's hardly a big deal, but it 
would shorten the workflow.

-Jim

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> I don't suppose .obj to pcm would be possible?

  Currently you will need to convert the .obj file to a mesh or mesh2
with some converter and then convert it to pcm with my program.

  I don't have the slightest idea what kind of format .obj is, but if
it's simple enough, I might add support for it...

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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Warp wrote:

> Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> 
>>I don't suppose .obj to pcm would be possible?
> 
> 
>   Currently you will need to convert the .obj file to a mesh or mesh2
> with some converter and then convert it to pcm with my program. 
> 

I don't think so, you don't read Mesh2 just Mesh.  That is why the need 
for Crossroads.  It can read .obj and output Mesh.

>   I don't have the slightest idea what kind of format .obj is, but if
> it's simple enough, I might add support for it...
> 

I think it is originally a Alias/Wavefront format. I actually wondered 
if Mesh2 was modelled after .obj in part.  The prob with .obj is that it 
comes in a couple of flavors I think.  Something about different line 
endings, newline or carriage return.  Since I first tried mesh modelling 
in a Maya course it was the format I got used to and have confidence in. 
  But it is really a matter of which button to push. Personally I like 
to produce mesh models with Wings3D which exports in a number of formats.
Anyway, as I said there is a way to manage the situation.  Support for 
.obj or other commom mesh format would give your app more of a 
one-stop-shopping place in the workflow.  But the reward would have to 
come from the doing I expect.

Btw my present endeavor is trying to apply hair to a mesh such that the 
direction it lies in can be controlled more closely.  Have you ever 
applied youself to that problem?

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In article <3fd26413@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   Currently you will need to convert the .obj file to a mesh or mesh2
> with some converter and then convert it to pcm with my program.
> 
>   I don't have the slightest idea what kind of format .obj is, but if
> it's simple enough, I might add support for it...

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geomformats/obj/
(more formats at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geomformats/)

http://pipin.tmd.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/3d/index.htm

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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