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4 Sep 2024 20:14:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: converting POV-script to other formats  
From: krus
Date: 21 Aug 2002 08:35:05
Message: <web.3d6388c947b41e72f4bd1e30@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran wrote:

>web.3d62cb6a47b41e72f4bd1e30[at]news.povray.org...
>> Thank you for ur reply Gilles!
>> I'm a litle outside my league here -
>> Would I have to make some modifications to the HF_square macro my self or
>is
>> there someone that have made a variant of the macro?
>> -Being new with pov i dont think i could do that (rather ..know ;) that..)
>
>You'll probably have to do that yourself. If you're a programmer, it
>shouldn't be so complicated in fact, as I see that the mesh creation feature
>is nicely packed into a little macro.
>
>> If I understand u correctly the Rhino program can read a .bmp !Picture!
>and
>> convert THAT to a mesh! *wow*
>> I will look for that demo -I can asure u !
>
>In fact this could be the easiest way to do it, at least you'll be able to
>repeat the operation until you run out of "saves" (you can save up to 20
>times in the demo).
>
>When I think of it, other software support this feature in fact. You can do
>this in Leveller, for instance, load the bitmap and export is as DXF.
>Terragen can also load RAW image files and save them in Lightwave format.
>I'm quite sure that Bryce can do it too. Or you could even load a flat OBJ
>file in Poseray (a Poser -> Povray converter), deform it with your bitmap
>and save the resulting OBJ. (all previous solution untested).
>
>
>G.
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Thank You Giles!
I will look at the macro. I have a lot of things i must read about because i
dont know most of the abowe mentioned file-formats *s*
regard krus


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