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From: Sven Littkowski
Subject: Mesh Support
Date: 27 Mar 2018 23:24:23
Message: <5abb0ae7$1@news.povray.org>

Hi,

what mesh formats can I import into a POV-Ray scene?

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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Mesh Support
Date: 28 Mar 2018 01:37:18
Message: <5abb2a0e$1@news.povray.org>

Am 28.03.2018 um 05:24 schrieb Sven Littkowski:
> what mesh formats can I import into a POV-Ray scene?

Currently, POV-Ray does not provide any native "import" of any kind
(other than image files); whatever "alien" formats you want to shove
into POV-Ray, you need to convert it to native POV-Ray format (mesh or
mesh2 in the case of polygon meshes) using an external tool.

On the other hand, technically POV-Ray's language is powerful enough to
write import macros for any format you can get detailed information
about. (Don't expect such macros to provide any reasonable performance
though).

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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: Mesh Support
Date: 28 Mar 2018 16:55:00
Message: <web.5abc00a6464d76b2a47873e10@news.povray.org>

Sven Littkowski <I### [at] SvenLittkowskiname> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what mesh formats can I import into a POV-Ray scene?
>

Take a look at the POSERAY utility...

https://sites.google.com/view/poseray

It can convert many kinds of meshes into a mesh that POV-Ray can import. It's
used successfully by others here in the newsgroups.

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