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Hello,
I used Pov-Ray a few years ago when designing furniture pieces. At the
time there was a brilliant little plugin that visually showed all the
textures in Pov-ray plus a few more. Metal, Stones etc. It was very
small and worked perfectly. You could visually browse the
textures/finishes and then double click the one you wanted and it would
automatically insert the declaration. Unfortunately with non-use and new
PC's etc, I have lost it. I wonder if anyone knows what/where it is? For
someone who is trying to use Pov-ray for making 3d designs a little more
realistic but does not want to get into creating whole new textures it
was invaluable. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
Thanks
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:38:52 +0100, Patrick <pat### [at] myrealbox com>
wrote:
> For
> someone who is trying to use Pov-ray for making 3d designs a little more
> realistic but does not want to get into creating whole new textures it
> was invaluable. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
Even plugin can only take effect from process of "creating whole new textures"
and then I don't see what is advantage of that plugin over customizable Insert
Menu with prerendered images ?
http://abx.art.pl/pov/bonus/
:-)
ABX
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Patrick wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I used Pov-Ray a few years ago when designing furniture pieces. At the
> time there was a brilliant little plugin that visually showed all the
> textures in Pov-ray plus a few more. Metal, Stones etc. It was very
> small and worked perfectly. You could visually browse the
> textures/finishes and then double click the one you wanted and it would
> automatically insert the declaration. Unfortunately with non-use and new
> PC's etc, I have lost it. I wonder if anyone knows what/where it is? For
> someone who is trying to use Pov-ray for making 3d designs a little more
> realistic but does not want to get into creating whole new textures it
> was invaluable. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
TextureVeiw?
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/index.html
--
Ken Tyler
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Thanks Ken,
that is exactly what I was after. Thanks also to ABX.
Great response!
Ken wrote:
>
> Patrick wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I used Pov-Ray a few years ago when designing furniture pieces. At the
>>time there was a brilliant little plugin that visually showed all the
>>textures in Pov-ray plus a few more. Metal, Stones etc. It was very
>>small and worked perfectly. You could visually browse the
>>textures/finishes and then double click the one you wanted and it would
>>automatically insert the declaration. Unfortunately with non-use and new
>>PC's etc, I have lost it. I wonder if anyone knows what/where it is? For
>>someone who is trying to use Pov-ray for making 3d designs a little more
>>realistic but does not want to get into creating whole new textures it
>>was invaluable. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
>
>
> TextureVeiw?
>
> http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/index.html
>
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In article <7ni4jvgp2qkstm76cg77a7u5v9tc5kn1d6@4ax.com>, abx### [at] abxartpl
says...
> I don't see what is advantage of that plugin over customizable Insert
> Menu with prerendered images ?
You mean besides the fact that there is an internal limit on the number
of items in this menu and that the last batch I added suddenly caused
POV-Ray to show menu images on menus 'other' than the insert menu as a
side effect?
--
void main () {
call functional_code()
else
call crash_windows();
}
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:16:35 -0700, Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
> In article <7ni4jvgp2qkstm76cg77a7u5v9tc5kn1d6@4ax.com>, abx### [at] abxartpl
> says...
> > I don't see what is advantage of that plugin over customizable Insert
> > Menu with prerendered images ?
> You mean besides the fact that there is an internal limit on the number
> of items in this menu
What limit? I just looked into BuildDirList function in codemax code and do
not see any hardcoded limit.
> that the last batch I added suddenly caused
> POV-Ray to show menu images on menus 'other' than the insert menu as a
> side effect?
Can you write me more about it?
Have you already reported your problems somewhere ?
ABX
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ABX wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:16:35 -0700, Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
>
>>In article <7ni4jvgp2qkstm76cg77a7u5v9tc5kn1d6@4ax.com>, abx### [at] abxartpl
>>says...
>>
>>>I don't see what is advantage of that plugin over customizable Insert
>>>Menu with prerendered images ?
>>
>>You mean besides the fact that there is an internal limit on the number
>>of items in this menu
>
>
> What limit? I just looked into BuildDirList function in codemax code and do
> not see any hardcoded limit.
>
>
>>that the last batch I added suddenly caused
>>POV-Ray to show menu images on menus 'other' than the insert menu as a
>>side effect?
>
>
> Can you write me more about it?
>
> Have you already reported your problems somewhere ?
>
> ABX
I mentioned this a while back (a couple of months perhaps, but a search
of news.povray.org doesn't reveal the message) and didn't see a response
that addressed a solution. This also was brought up by Thomas Eicher on
10 Sept, 2002. It shows up when adding a couple of Insert menu add-ons
("Basic templates" by Friedrich Lohmueller and "IsoCSG include file" by
a person whose name I don't have access to at this time).
Two problems show up:
1) Past a certain point in the Insert menu, nothing is inserted in the
file being edited. With both add-ons installed, Shapes/quadric will
insert text, but Shapes/quartic will not. This breakpoint changes
depending on which add-ons are present, and what position they are
placed in the menu.
2) Previews show up in strange places. With the above mentioned add-ons
installed, I see previews under various items in the Render menu (for
example "Select File and Render" and "Run Demo"). They show up all of
the way through to "Help/About POV-Ray for Windows...".
Let me know if you need any additional info.
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In article <3f33cfb4$1@news.povray.org>, tim### [at] netscapenet
says...
> Two problems show up:
> 1) Past a certain point in the Insert menu, nothing is inserted in the
> file being edited. With both add-ons installed, Shapes/quadric will
> insert text, but Shapes/quartic will not. This breakpoint changes
> depending on which add-ons are present, and what position they are
> placed in the menu.
> 2) Previews show up in strange places. With the above mentioned add-ons
> installed, I see previews under various items in the Render menu (for
> example "Select File and Render" and "Run Demo"). They show up all of
> the way through to "Help/About POV-Ray for Windows...".
>
> Let me know if you need any additional info.
>
>
Exactly. I have the IsoCSG one and the scene templates menus, but as far
as I know I haven't run into item 1 above. However, I do suffer from item
2. On mine I am get the following quirks:
Menu Image
---- -----
Render - Edit Settings CSG Operations - Intersection
Render - Start Render Patterns 1 - Cylindrical
Render - File Queue Patterns 1 - Brick
Render - Animation - No Shell.. IsoCSG include file - iso_bcsg.inc
- shape macros - IC_BSuperellipsoid
Options - Other Settings
- Show Tips of the Day IsoCSG include file - iso_chars.inc
- IC_Text()
Options - Other Settings
- Show Next Tip Pattern/Texture Attributes
- Wave form attribute
Options - Render Window
- Force 8-bit display Patterns 1 - function
Options - Render Window
- Close Transformations - Rotate
Options - Render Window
- Keep Above Main IsoCSG include file - iso-csg.inc
- shape macros - IC_Box()
Options - Message Window
- Select Plain Background Transformation - Translate
Options - Message Window
- Text Font IsoCSG include file - iso-csg.inc
- CSG macros - IC_Difference4()
Options - Message Window
- Text Color IsoCSG include file - iso-csg.inc
- CSG macros - IC_Merge2()
Options - Message Window
- Choose Background - Browse IsoCSG include file - iso-csg.inc
- IC_Displace()
Help - Bug Reporting Patterns 1 - Slope
Help - Show Tip Pattern/Texture Attributes
- Wave form attribute
Help - About... Patterns 2 - Leopard
It may help to know if this is common to all cases of having those menu
extensions installed. I think this started happening right after I
installed the CSG ones, but before adding the Basic scene template one,
so the CSG by itself may somehow be doing it. It is definitely odd and I
don't trust the menu at all because of it.
--
void main () {
call functional_code()
else
call crash_windows();
}
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In article <3F325217.CC7B3A90@pacbell.net>, tyl### [at] pacbellnet says...
>
>
> Patrick wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I used Pov-Ray a few years ago when designing furniture pieces. At the
> > time there was a brilliant little plugin that visually showed all the
> > textures in Pov-ray plus a few more. Metal, Stones etc. It was very
> > small and worked perfectly. You could visually browse the
> > textures/finishes and then double click the one you wanted and it would
> > automatically insert the declaration. Unfortunately with non-use and new
> > PC's etc, I have lost it. I wonder if anyone knows what/where it is? For
> > someone who is trying to use Pov-ray for making 3d designs a little more
> > realistic but does not want to get into creating whole new textures it
> > was invaluable. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
>
> TextureVeiw?
>
> http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/index.html
>
>
Hmm. The plugin won't work on my copy of 3.5 for some odd reason. It will
load POV-Ray and apparently does something.. But there is no rendering,
it just dims the 'Render' button and the after a bit times out or
something and goes back to normal, with no image created for the texture.
Needless to say this kind of defeats the purpose of the program. :p
Does anyone else have this issue?
--
void main () {
call functional_code()
else
call crash_windows();
}
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:28:35 -0600, Tim Riley <tim### [at] netscapenet>
wrote:
> Let me know if you need any additional info.
I would need some screenshots and your system specification. IIRC Insert Menu
is handled by CodeMax library and I think debugging and recompiling it is much
more complicated than povray sources but who knows...
ABX
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