"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > For example, the attached is a test using compound collision objects in Blender.
>
> Wow, very nice! I have almost no experience using Blender.

Thanks!

It's not the easiest program to use at first. Things are hidden and not very
obvious, but they become clear soon enough.

> > I wrote an addon for Blender which directly exports transformations of all
> > selected objects to an .inc file, so it's now possible to go straight from
> > Blender to POV-Ray. It seems like the simplest way to accomplish things,
> > especially considering all the nice tools that are available in Blender.
>
> That's really cool too; I guess it's time to DL the new version myself and check
> it out.

You really should. This new version is so much better than, say, 2.49.
Everything's so much easier now, and the things it can do... it's an amazing
program, although it does have its quirks :)

If you do DL it, you might try out the exporter addon I just uploaded to
p.b.misc:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.misc/thread/%3Cweb.5056a911b09798c46664708b0%40news.povray.org%3E/

> As a simple example of going "direct" I grabbed this sim screenshot of the most
> basic demo in the Bullet SDK and then appended the resulting POV-Ray image.

Nice. How "direct" are we talking?

Attached is another test, this time showing a ball blasting through a wall of
cubes. For the motion blur effect, I saved two states of the sim at different
time steps and interpolated the transformations in POV over a series of frames.
The images were then averaged together.

Sam

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