PoseRay to Kerkythea conversion

[giannis]

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

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

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