"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:4713aedc$1@news.povray.org...
>
> "Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote in message
>> ... snip ...
>> The list of file types can be changed, so feel free to make the case for 
>> any additional file types that you would like to see added to the list.
>>
>> Also, I can see that there may be occasions where we want to make one-off 
>> exceptions ... snip ...
>
>     Do you mean <for example> a self-made tutorial based on a Wings model, 
> and how it's used in 'my' way through PoV-Ray?
>
>          ~Steve~
>

Hi Steve,

To be honest it wasn't quite what I had in mind. I think that there are 
better ways of doing tutorials.
The POV-Ray Links Collection has a tutorials section which includes links to 
that type of tutorial.
Indeed it would be easier for you to maintain a tutorial as a web page on a 
site where you can readily update text, fix typos and rework individual 
graphics.

Nevertheless, if you wanted to contribute a model that you've made in Wings, 
converted to a POV-Ray mesh object/include file as a standalone object in 
the collection, then that would be fine. You could also submit a Web Page 
along with the include file, documenting the mesh object, describing how you 
created it and point the reader to other resources, such as the tutorial and 
the original source file.

If you look at the 'Eye' contribution you'll see a link to 'More Details' 
next to the object name. This is just a Web Page submitted with the same 
name as the object (eye.htm). If the server finds such a page it 
automatically adds a 'More Details' hyperlink to display it. Note that all 
file names are converted to lowercase when loaded into the server, so if you 
incorporate images for use in such a Web Page then you need to use lower 
case image names in the SRC attribute of the IMG tag.

Regards,
Chris.

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"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Chris B wrote:
>> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:470fef4e$1@news.povray.org...
>>> "Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote in message
>>> news:470b46cb$1@news.povray.org...
>>>
>>>   Chris, what type of files are perceived as ok to upload? I mean that 
>>> it
>>> doesn't look like there is any option for any other file type, (unless
>>> I've not seen it) and in my case, OBJ files?
>>>
>>>     Is this possible in the future?
>>>
>>>      ~Steve~
>>>
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> The file types currently accepted are: BMP, CSS, CSV, GIF, HTM, HTML, 
>> INC, INI, JPEG, JPG, JS, MDL, PGM, PNG, POV, PPM, TGA, TIF, TIFF and TXT. 
>> This is initially intended to limit contributions to those that can be 
>> directly used by POV-Ray (along with HTML and associated file
>> types for documentation).
>>
> What about ZIP?
>

Hi Andrel,

Zips are a bit tricky and would require coding changes rather than just a 
configuration change. The application code currently does a number of checks 
which includes validating fie types and MIME types as well as identifying 
files that it can use as thumbnails, image links and documentation for 
display on the web site.

Technically it's possible to scan, validate and extract the contents of 
uploaded zip files, but it's not something that the application currently 
does or that'll be possible on this site in the near future.

Regards,
Chris B.

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> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:471### [at] hotmailcom...
>> What about ZIP?
>>
> 
> Hi Andrel,
> 
> Zips are a bit tricky and would require coding changes rather than just a 
> configuration change. The application code currently does a number of checks 
> which includes validating fie types and MIME types as well as identifying 
> files that it can use as thumbnails, image links and documentation for 
> display on the web site.
> 
> Technically it's possible to scan, validate and extract the contents of 
> uploaded zip files, but it's not something that the application currently 
> does or that'll be possible on this site in the near future.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris B.
> 
> 
> 

http://php.net/zip
Seems easy enough to use.

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