Re: SOR
Andreas Zehender <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kpovmodeler |
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Hi! On Tuesday 01 October 2002 00:38, Tarax wrote: > Le Lundi 30 Septembre 2002 21:47, Andreas Zehender a écrit : > > What do you mean by advanced snaping options? > > I mean a complete set of options allowing to choose where the points will > hang wether on the grid or on the other objects (vertex, edge, middle edge, > perpendicular, face, center face, tangent, ...). It's a function that > really improve modeling precision, wich is very interesting if you plan to > work at "growing" scales, it avoids texture pbs, ... Cool idea. This requires some kind of bounding box/sphere for objects and some snapTo methods for each object. The wire frames are only approximated and can't be used. > > Yes, the plugin framework will make object creation plugins like > > landscape and tree generators possible. > > FANTASTIC !! > Hmmmm, I have a huge bookmark related to pov... could be a job for me to > scan it, contact authors for authorisation, & if I'm skilled enought, add > things to the object library or write plugins based on those materials. Sure. That would be great. > IMHO, the general activity around the KPovModeler project is going to > explode with kde 3.1 launching. The lack of an active pov modeler project > (even if Giram seems to be developped a little faster these days than > before) & and the SO LONG awaited 3.5 release of pov wich has re-stimulated > the community, will force the interest of the whole Linux CGA community (& > all others platforms where kde & pov can be run, including MacOS X ;-)) ). > This list's gonna shake man ! ;-)) Uh, this list has enough traffic. As soon as it has more traffic than kde-devel, I will split it up to a development list and a user list. > PS: have you ever considered 'sourceforging', & if you did... why didn't > you ?!! Why should I? We have a CVS server, a homepage and a mailing list. The application was announced on dot.kde.com, it is listed on apps.kde.com and the povray modeler page. I think we have enough publicity. Andreas -- -------------------------------------------------- Andreas Zehender, Dipl. Ing. (BA) Student, 10th semester computer science http://www.azweb.de [email protected] | [email protected] -------------------------------------------------- List archive and information: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kpovmodeler-devel