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PovRay Exporter - ismacou - 10-25-2024
Hi.
When I export to PovRay I always notice distortion on glass or crystal objects. I recently found a solution using the Poseray utility. It has a method of smoothing mesh normals and then the regular povray file is exported.
Is there a way to optimize the mesh exported to Povray from Wings, without subdividing the mesh to an unmanageable point?
Is this a reason to update and perhaps fix the Povray exporter?
I don't want to sound pretentious or bold, but glass renders with such distortions are unacceptable and useless.
Greetings and thank you very much.
RE: PovRay Exporter - micheus - 10-26-2024
I'm not sure we can do something about that (in the code). But, you may try something I did in the past in orde to improve the glass render.
In this post you are going to see I kept the mesh the most regular (squares) as possible and then triangulate it.
That was the way I got good results in POV-Ray.
https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=187&pid=15817#pid15817