On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Klaas Decanniere wrote:
Hello,
The option to make movies using povray works nice and easy, so I want to push the boundaries a bit :-)
- the standard texture included in the .pov files has a very simple finish - is there an easy way to include a spiced-up version? - when not using a "wait" command, several movements (roll, move, scale) are combined. When using the wait command, movements become separated with a small "hesitation" before the second movement starts. Is there a way to minimize this hesitation?
Thanks,
Klaas
P.S.: if you know why powerpoint would play a movie fine 3 or 4 times in a row and then fail after that (nothing else changes, except maybe time), please let me know.
Hello, We don't have a simple way to change the POV-ray finish. What you could do today, is to use chimera's x3dsave command to export your scene as a X3D file, next run CHIMERA/bin/x3d2pov to convert it to a .pov file, and then edit the result. If the editting is done by a program, you could invoke it and x3d2pov with chimera's system command, so all of the commands could be in a command script. FYI, I will be deprecating the x3dsave command with a more general export command that will let you export directly to .pov before for the next production release. As for PowerPoint, we have a list of troubleshooting web links in the Chimera documentation on "Making Movies". If you have already done what they recommend and it didn't help, we like to know. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab