On 27-Aug-97 LinArt List wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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>> AFAIK, Rayshade was a kind of predecessor of Povray. I think POV was built
>on
>> Rayshade. Anyways, POV is *excellent* but I'd also like to know if there is
>any
>> modeling software for it around. The scripting language is a bit tough for
>me,
>> esp. since I don't really have the time to sit and learn it.
>
>Yeah, trying to figure it all out is the hard part. I'm thinking that maybe
>a parallel to your modeling software for Povray is like xfig to PostScript.
>PS can be programmed directly but xfig makes it so much easier. Does
>modeling software for ray tracing programs exist on other platforms?
I've used PovCad on Windows, which is quite excellent. It's a shareware proggy.
It can output POV and Polyray datafiles, handles unions, differences, bezier
patches, animation support etc. I've tried to run it under WINE, but no luck. :(
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