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Subject: Might be useful - freeware programs
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You just have to search... :-) This is a program to convert various formats into POV-Ray, but it can also take POV/INC and convert them to OBJ-- erlik
What is POV-Ray exactly?
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thx erlik was just looking for a pov to obj exporter. looks like a handy little app. band: pov (persitance of vision) is a raytracer of the old days free offcourse.
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some free stuff i made
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for almost daily fotos
Attached Link: http://www.povray.org/community/hof/
to see how it rendersfor
some free stuff i made
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for almost daily fotos
If it's the one I remember (POVray), it uses a 'c-code' like language to make renders..nice pictures, but too much typing for me..;) Have Citygen and Helixer..I've got about 400 links for various free programs, but could always stand a few more..
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
i had to give up trying to learn povray when i started dreaming in script..........lightning fast renders though, & lots of fun customizing.
lost in the wilderness
Poser 13, Poser11, Â Win7Pro 64, now with 24GB ram
ooh! i guess i can add my new render(only) machine! Win11, I7, RTX 3060 12GB
Attached Link: POVtree
Erlik, thanks very much for these programs! Went off and downloaded CityGen and Poseray right away. I played with Citygen and exported a .pov file. Ran Poseray and tried to import the .pov file so that I could export out as an .obj file to Bryce. Poseray could not import the .pov file from Citygen. Error messages came up saying file has no vertices and file has no faces. I believe that the .pov file saved by Citygen is an ascii file and not a binary and therefore Poseray does not recognize it. Do you know of any file conversion program that would convert a .pov ascii file to binary?
Oh, that's excellent! I'd written to the author of POV-tree a couple of weeks ago asking her about the greyed out obj export format and she'd said she had no plans to implement that in the future. I'd done google searches in detail to find a POV-ray to Bryce compatible format but the only one I'd come up with just wouldn't play ball. This time I've been able to get the trees into Bryce no bother. :)
Hell with that, I can't even get the program to open. Here I am clicking away in the most advanced program ever written for a PC, and I can't even open this wicked-looking tree-maker! GAH! If it's a text-based program, someone please tell me right now, so I can discontinue any further concern for it?
Quest, POV is an ascii format, AFAIK. POB is binary.
Try 3DWin. It's free to try and 29 euros to register.
You can try Crossroads, it can read POV, too and export into OBJ, 3DS, COB and WRL. The author's page is dead and I found this one. The program was freeware.
-- erlik
Attached Link: http://p081.ezboard.com/fnosgothfrm14.showMessage?topicID=120.topic
just found one - follow the link.
Hmmm, that is odd Lordstormdragon. I already had Java installed because I needed it to run "Arbaro", another Java-based tree making app which is quite good. Can you tell I'm nuts about trees,lol? I downloaded the zip to my documents, unzipped it it with no probs, dbl. clicked on the file called "povtree.jar" and the app opened with a nicely designed and easy to use graphic interface. I clicked on a preset and tweaked it a little and from there exporting was a doddle. I have found that sometimes I need to add ".inc" to the model name so that the POV-to-.obj conversion proggie will recognise it.
Danamo, thanks for that link too, Povtree. I downloaded it and had no problem converting Olive tree in Poseray to an .obj file. I then imported into 3DS Max and put it through Polygon cruncher and reduced it from 256,156 polys to just slightly over 66,000. Havent taken a close look yet to see deformation but generally looks good at the glance. Im sorry Erlik, I know from paste experience that the original Pov-ray was ascii but I was of the impression for some reason that over the years they improved over the code by adding binary to later formats. Oh well, guess Im wrong and Ive been barking up the wrong tree in looking for an ascii to binary converter. Ive still not been able to convert the Citygen exported file with Poseray to .obj. I also tried Crossroads before I posted here to no avail. I could view the olive tree converted to .obj (mentioned above) with Poseray in 3D Exploration but it will not show the CityGen exported .Pov file. So CityGen must be exporting at some other, perhaps earlier .pov format that is not recognized by either 3D Exploration, Crossroads or Poseray. Is that possible? Have you been successful with it? If you have, how did you manage it? When Pov-tree saved the olive tree to pov-ray format, it placed an .inc extension on the exported file which was then read and converted by Poseray to .obj format. So am I right in assuming that .inc and .pov are both Pov-ray formats of a different flavor?
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City Gen, a program to create cities. Unfortunately, it works only in POV-Ray format. I cannot download it at the moment, but check it out.
Helixir, a program to create helixes and seashell shapes. Quite similar to Spiralizer, but better behaved. Saves in UDO/INC format, POV-Rays formats.
Tons of programs freeware, shareware and commercial. You've got LaFont, apparently similar to Elefont. You've got PFE, which does the same thing... And they've got a link to Bryce 4. :-)
-- erlik