Does anyone have a utility to output Java 3D scenes? (Doesn't have to be directly from the scenegraph.  Could be you're saving scene objects in a vector, or something, plus the scenegraph...) For example, I interactively build a scene in Java 3D, then I want to output it into a format that POV-ray can import and render. 
 
Has anyone made the Java 3D renderer "switchable", as in: Build the scene with "normal" interactive Java 3D rendering, then have a button which switches the render to POV-ray (or some other ray tracing rendering engine) without saving the scene into a special file format first (no scene interaction at this point.)  And then be able to switch back to the "normal" scene renderer to work interactively with the scene again. 
 
Why would I want to do that?? Because I use Java 3D to build an a scene with animations (moving objects).  Once I get all the objects programmed, with their motions, I step through it, one frame (clock interval) at a time and do a screen capture to a jpg file.  Would be nice to get higher quality images at this point by switching in a ray-tracing renderer.
 
Cheers,
Bob Gray
 

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