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From: janper
Subject: Cinema 4D
Date: 23 Dec 2006 14:15:00
Message: <web.458d7fb65dec2aa91a48ad3b0@news.povray.org>
sorry for an essential question:

is it possible to render a scene from Cinema 4D 9.6 in POV-ray?
i haven't found any conversion tool yet

thx!


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: Cinema 4D
Date: 24 Dec 2006 06:40:45
Message: <458e673d$1@news.povray.org>

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> sorry for an essential question:
>
> is it possible to render a scene from Cinema 4D 9.6 in POV-ray?
> i haven't found any conversion tool yet

Yes and no. It's possible to export the scene geometry with a limited subset 
of the materials (plain colour textures and bitmaps) using the OBJ or 3DS 
export and then converting this to POV-Ray with Poseray or 3DWin. Lights, 
camera settings, procedural textures and other C4D-only features (including 
displacement mapping) won't be converted, so a good deal of the scene will 
need to be recreated in POV-Ray.

Perhaps a FBX export could be more comprehensive but you'll need something 
able to read FBX and output to POV-Ray (I see that LynX 3D can do that but 
I've not tested it). In any case, procedural materials are likely to be out 
of the question.

G.


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