Hi David,
At 12:55 13.09.00 , you wrote:
>Is there available a converter / API from Java3D to POV-Ray script so I
>can render my Java3D images to POV-Ray ? Any comments welcome.
>
>regards
As far as I know, no. Java3D is a programming API rather than a script
language; having all of Java behind it, Java3D is much more programmable
(and thus variable) than any "static" image construction language such as
POV-Ray. There are a zillion things you could do with Java 3D (such as
animation) that you can't do with POV-Ray, thus there is no chance at full
scale conversion. Alas, I also find that many of the effects that are possible
in POV-Ray, such as genuine shadow casting and reflection, don't have a
counterpart in Java 3D or are much more difficult there.
You may be interested in pursuing a hybrid approach; you could build a
landscape or other static, billboard-type components of a scene in POV-Ray
and use the 2D images thus created as backgrounds (or whatever) in a 3D
world created using Java 3D.
On the whole, I'd say that POV-Ray and Java3D are worlds apart, sorry.
-Carl-
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