PoseRay to Kerkythea conversion

[giannis]

[notareal]

Welcome FlyerX. These are great news.

giannis,

Thanks for the offer. I did sent you an email.

As I mentioned on the message to giannis, the conversion may take some time since I am rather busy. Most likely it will be done in phases with several beta versions released to the KT forum only. By the way... where should I announce any new PoseRay releases? Here in Off topic?

I have another question about materials in KT: Can a material file be read that modifies all the materials in a model instead of just one? Maybe it could be done with a script.

regards,

FlyerX

[Fletch]

send request to Giannis via email when you have announcement of first beta, he will likely create a PoseRay sub-forum ... at least that's what I would do...

flyerx, Good oportunity for congratulate you for PoseRay! and that conversion tool would be great!

Thanks to everyone for the comments. I am glad that many people actually find PoseRay useful. I noticed that the displacement tool is rather popular here and I just wanted to let everyone know that I am looking into making the displacement function use an adaptive subdivision scheme before displacement. The subdivision will be done where the displacement mapping has non-zero gradients. This should prevent the model from becoming too dense by only subdividing the triangles that are affected by the displacement changes. It is still a long way to implemented but PoseRay internal data structure should allow for easy implementation of this scheme.

regards,

FlyerX

[Fletch]

Woooooow, that would be awesome!

Unnecesary subdivition is the main reason why displacement has to be used with caution. That would be great.

@ Flyerx Congrats on the new update!! The new high light on selected obj. Is a great help!! (?) Is there going to be a new added slot for spec. and trans. for the mats on the same obj. Just a thought. Add I hope to see the new export to xml in the future!!! That would be great!! And if no ones said it yet welcome!!

DragonSlayer44,

The only reason I did not include trans and specular at the same time is because, as far as I know, POV-Ray does not support it without modifying the transparency map to use the alpha channel. This makes the conversion rather cumbersome for POV-Ray scenes. I will take a look at it again and see if anything could be done.

The xml writer for KT and the enhanced subdivision/displacement routines are mostly finished. I also added a blended subdivision function. This provides for a non-subdivided mesh to join with a subdivided mesh without gaps.

I just need to some stress tests. I will release a preview link on this thread soon. I would like people to test the update and to get some feedback to better convert models to KT meshes.

regards,

FlyerX