I am using AC3D to build models and render them in PovRay. I want to be able
to make changes to my model while in PovRay. What data do I put in PovRay
that will allow me to do that?

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This is a pretty broad question akin to asking what to put in a
wordprocessing file in order to change the wording of an essay.   So the
answer is just about anything.  For whatever you want to do, do a search in
the docs.  If your output is in the form of large meshes of triangles, it's
probably not going to be convienient to manually modify them individually,
but you can certainly (for example) rotate, scale, and translate them as
groups (supposing they're grouped together with something like union{})
with "rotate", "scale" and "translate" respectively.  Another
simple/general thing you can do is change color/texture/finish etc.   Not
sure if this helps.

Charles





"delly" <del### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I am using AC3D to build models and render them in PovRay. I want to be able
> to make changes to my model while in PovRay. What data do I put in PovRay
> that will allow me to do that?

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"delly" <del### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I am using AC3D to build models and render them in PovRay. I want to be able
> to make changes to my model while in PovRay. What data do I put in PovRay
> that will allow me to do that?

If you export them by using the PfPOV plugin for
AC3D making changes in POVRay is a bit easier
since it declares objects and groups etc and
allows for easy access and manipulation in
POVRay.

Also, it supports re-exporting the .pov file
without losing the changes you've done in POVRay.

The PfPOV plug in: http://www.perfnurt/pfpov.asp

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"PerFnurt" <per### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "delly" <del### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > I am using AC3D to build models and render them in PovRay. I want to be able
> > to make changes to my model while in PovRay. What data do I put in PovRay
> > that will allow me to do that?
>
> If you export them by using the PfPOV plugin for
> AC3D making changes in POVRay is a bit easier
> since it declares objects and groups etc and
> allows for easy access and manipulation in
> POVRay.
>
> Also, it supports re-exporting the .pov file
> without losing the changes you've done in POVRay.
>
> The PfPOV plug in: http://www.perfnurt/pfpov.asp

Correct address is http://www.perfnurt.se/pfpov.asp

Sorry

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