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I'd like to know if anyone has created an extension/code to allow mouse and
keyboard control of zooming and rotating POV-Ray renderings. I am just
beginning to investigate the capabilities of POV-Ray and being able to render a
scene and essentially move the camera with the mouse and keyboard, not some
scripted animation, is of much interest to me. Thanks for any comments.
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"akash" <aka### [at] zemax com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to know if anyone has created an extension/code to allow mouse
> and
> keyboard control of zooming and rotating POV-Ray renderings. I am just
> beginning to investigate the capabilities of POV-Ray and being able to
> render a
> scene and essentially move the camera with the mouse and keyboard, not
> some
> scripted animation, is of much interest to me. Thanks for any comments.
Hi,
My initial reaction is that it sounds like you would be more comfortable
with a Modeller such as Moray or Blender, than with a Ray-Tracer like
POV-Ray.
Modellers let you draw 3D objects and configuring 3D scenes with a mouse and
a keyboard. You can then navigate around those scenes, zoom in and out,
rotate things etc. using the mouse and keyboard. Most modelling applications
provide low-quality rendering options (e.g. wireframe) to enable you to do
this in real time even with quite complex scenes. POV-Ray is designed more
for producing high quality, even photo-realistic renders and animations.
On the other hand, if you're happy defining the scene in POV-Ray and you
just want to move the camera at render-time, then I believe there are some
experimental real-time rendering features in the 3.7 Beta release of POV-Ray
that enable you to 'fly-through' POV-ray scenes, so you may wish to read up
on those to see if they do what you want.
Ultimately you can of course combine the two, developing and initially
visualising your scene in a modeller and exporting it to POV-Ray to create
photo-realistic finished works.
Regards,
Chris B.
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