Does anybody know where I can find a program that can convert .pov or .3dc files to anything I can use in PS7? I've been searching and searching and I cannot find anything.

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.pov is a file format that contains 3D information, no pixel or vector information, as far as I know. This what i snitched from http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/filesQandT.html POV-Ray files are actually source code of the POV-Ray scripting language. The POV-Ray scripting language is by many means a full programming language (it's Turing-strong). It contains many features typical to programming languages and non-typical to data files (such as variables, loops, mathematical functions, macros, etc). It has many features to describe things in a much more abstract way than just plain numbers. This is why converting a POV-file to a data file readable by other renderers is so difficult. The converter program would actually have to "execute", that is, interpret the scripting language (in the exact same way as a BASIC or Perl source code is interpreted). Making a scripting language interpreter is a much more laborious job than just converting numerical data from one format to another. There's also another problem: POV-Ray describes most of its objects as mathematical entities while most of other renderers just handle triangles (or NURBS or similar easily tesselable primitives). A converter would have to make some tesselation in order to convert most POV-Ray primitives to other formats. This can be a quite laborious job for a converter to make (it would have to practically implement an almost fully-qualified POV-Ray renderer). This is why making a full-featured converter from any POV-file to any other format is an almost impossible task.

Hi Missy, Try HCR-EDIT, haven't got the url but it does pop up high on my search engine listings. This is actually a POV converter and HDRI editor, but I think it is what you may want. It is still in beta stage, I had a quick look at it and plan to use it at some point in the future but have left POV-RAY for CARRARA!! good luck! regards Clive.