Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Poser4 to POV converter work in progress

flyerx opened this issue on Dec 03, 2000 ยท 7 posts

flyerx posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 5:09 AM

Hello, I am almost finished on a windows program that converts Poser4 object files into POV code. Right now it can transfer all the geometry, material color, highlight, ambient color and texture information. Transparency and bumpmap properties are selected at conversion time. As far as I know object files do not store transparency or bumpmap information. Right now the geometry is grouped by materials. The above render was done in MegaPOV with output from my program and with no post code modifications. Model is LinLin with a bumpmaped and textured dress. I should be finished soon and I will put it up in my webpage free for everyone. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. FlyerX

JeffH posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 6:25 AM

It looks great.

nitreug posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 12:24 PM

Great tool. I have POVRAY. Is it the same as MegaPOV? Claude

flyerx posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 2:07 PM

MegaPOV is the same as POVRAY but compiled with extra features, such as UV mapping, that make the above render possilbe.

flyerx posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 2:09 PM

I forgot to mention that UV mapping, along with most features in MegaPOV, will be included the next official release of POVRAY (3.5).

Cage posted Mon, 04 December 2000 at 7:45 PM

Can you post the link for MegaPOV? I can't find any reference to it among the POV-Ray sites. Fantastic idea, BTW!

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

flyerx posted Mon, 04 December 2000 at 9:21 PM

Attached Link: http://nathan.kopp.com/download.htm

Thanks for the comments, MegaPOV is available at http://nathan.kopp.com/download.htm Download the winmegapov06a.zip file, the demos and documentation. This is the Windows version. I found the demos more useful than the documentation. You will also have to get the official POV to work with MegaPOV. (www.povray.org) good luck, FlyerX