In my mind, Soya3D is somewhere between a high-level rendering engine and a full fledged game engine. Game-engines are too high level for what you want, but Soya might be perfect. (or it might not :-)
You don't need to use Blender for creating objects, take a look at the modelling* tutorials (starting with) http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya_tuto/tutomodeling-1.html I'm not sure if there are primitives for clyinders et al, but I expect there are. If not, I'm sure it would be very easy to make some. (You could even import them from blender :-) I didn't know vpython was capable of doing what you're interested in, I thought it was a bit more limited than that. You may also be interested in cgkit (cgkit.sf.net), which is something like a modelling toolkit but without built-in support for rendering as with soya. (It does have extensions for interactive opengl, ogre, and renderman rendering though) Dusty On 10/19/05, Frédéric Mantegazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using vpython for a while, in a scientific application. I use 3D > objects to represent a big instrument called spectrometer. This is very > usefull for scientists to control the instrument position when they are at > home. We also use vpython to simulate some physics stuff, like neutron > interactions (see attached files). > > I was wondering if I can use Soya to do that... I need to create geometrical > objects (cylinders, arrows, ...), and to be able to move/rotate/resize them > precisely. Does Soya allow that ? > > I also need to make animations. With vpython, I export scene in pov format, > and then use povray to compute a nice image. Transcode is used to combines > all images in a short movie. > > I'm reading the tutorial, but I didn't see what is the 'data' format used by > soya. Do I really need Blender to create a simple object ? Is there a > simpler solution ? > > Any feedback welcome. > > Cheers, > > -- > Frédéric > > > _______________________________________________ > Soya-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user > > > >
