Jon A. Cruz wrote:

If there are any POV-Ray users kicking around out there, could you drop me a mail directly and let me know? I've seen a few of you lurking around out there (especially given the new POV-Ray export), and was looking for any guinepigs for a little util I'm working on.

Thanks.

Hey, Jon,

Well, besides Bulia and me, I'm sure there are a few. This might be something to post to a news://news.povray.org user group.

People would probably want to look at:

share/examples/istest.pov

...to see how to interpret the shapes exported by the code. It is basically a list of all Shapes on the document, exported as Bezier prisms, along with some of each path's information. At the bottom of the file, there is a union{}, ("AllShapes") which groups all of the shapes into a single object. There is a second identical union{} of the same information, ("AllShapesZ"), only the shapes are slightly different in their Z order so that there are no coincident surfaces, and everything can be seen.

My original intent was just to export individual shapes, so that I could render them for a project on which I am working. The AllShapes thing was just a quick way to view the entire document at once. However, having the geek disease, we tweaked that part a LOT to improve on the coolness factor. I think they look quite nice, IMHO. I have always been a big PovRay fan, and have admired how much it can render with fairly small scene description files.

Here are a couple of simple raytraced images from when we were hacking on it. They are rendered exactly as exported, with no tweaking:

Inkscape Logo (inkscape.logo.svg) http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/ispov2.png

Tux (tux.svg) http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/povtux2.png

Bob