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very important ! Read this before trying to render under
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- Povanim
is an export script project (to
discover what are python script) for "mesh" objects,
particularly
oriented to regular users of :
renderers
.
(Download
the
script)
It
allows:
- full power of povray
using a ".ini" file instead of the ".pov" : file structures
are clearer (you can modify the camera file, for instance, without
editing 2 megaoctets of vertex data) and the data use less space
on disk.
-
to preserve some data like localisation, rotation and size, whereas
other
scripts only export matrixes...or nothing at all.
-
take into account the modifications made by animation tools such
as:
- Armature
- Relative Vertex Keys
- Lattice
- Vertex Parenting works too
These 4
possibilities above mentioned are exclusively reserved to
Blender
2.23 and later.
So Povanim can not be used with another older version of this
software.
- to export
the vertex colors assigned with the Blender vertex
painting
tool blender with uvmapping texture or not
- to choose
the type of exportation :
- Povray 3.5/3.6
- MegaPov 0.7 or 1.0 or 1.1
- MlPov
- Pov-sub
- PVMpov
- to avoid having
to install the full python language on the workstation because Povanim
works with the python library delivered with Blender.
-
to work under:
- Linux without
having to adjust the script (in fact under all posix compatible
systems:
unix and irix included, but not tested)
- Windows
(win95/98/nt/2000/xp)
.
- Macintosh
Os X 10 with Megapov 1.0
- to detect
several errors
of camera or version, and to notify them returning an error message in
the console. <>-
uvmapping , available from the 10d version, and without any
restriction.Technically
each face could have a different mapped picture.
- selective
exportation of
every exportable elements(camera, mesh,lights, etc.)
- layers
selection, and full
management of the "lightsgroups"
- definition of
additional
effects as "normals" particularly
- choice of the
structure
of the materials definitions in povray,
- graphic
interface
- controlling
animations separeted
from the camera, materials
and lighting,
...
- the format of
the file :
either a group of files equiped ith macros which import data from a
text
file, or a group of #include files.
- transparency (several methods),
ambient, diffuse,
specs and brilliance effects, enhanced uvmapping and objects
multimapping,
ior management, photons tracing...
-
Launching of the external render directly from the
graphic
interface if the
Adjustement of the global
intensity of light.
- Auto-bump
mapping from uvmapped pictures.
(and more... this list was not uppdated since 2002.)
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Usages
1/ copy the povanim23x_xx.pyc
file and the lanc_povanim.py
in the $blenderhome+'.blender/scripts
directory'
2/ The last version 241_05 for
Windows should find
by itself the Povray executable
. For Linux or Mac OS users haver to edit the lanc_povanim.py to
change the address of the 'renderer
binary folder path' (select the name 'renderer binary folder path' and
use the shortkey alt-f to
jump to the correct line). You shoult find a text like this :
#-------------------------------------------
# please document : renderer binary folder path
#-------------------------------------------
if os.sep=='/': # posix : linux/mac/irix
prf.megapov10Path="/home/3d/megapov10"
prf.mlpov08Path="/home/3d/mlpov"
prf.povray35Path="/home/jms/3d/povray/povray-3.5"
prf.povray36Path="/home/jms/3d/povray/povray-3.5"
prf.megapov07Path="/home/3d/megapov07"
prf.povraySubPath="Sorry, this patch does not exist for
*nix"
prf.MechsimPath="/home/3d/megapov10"
else: # win32 : win98,nt,xp
prf.megapov10Path="G:\\stock_logiciel_et_plugin\\3d\\povray\\megapov\\bin"
prf.mlpov08Path="G:\\stock_logiciel_et_plugin\\3d\\povray\\mlpov\\bin"
prf.povray35Path="F:\\Program Files\\POV-Ray for Windows
v3.5\\bin"
prf.povray36Path="F:\\Program Files\\POV-Ray for Windows
v3.6\\bin"
prf.megapov07Path="F:\\Program Files\\POV-Ray for Windows
v3.1\\bin"
prf.povraySubPath="F:\\Program Files\\POV-Ray for Windows
v3.5\\bin"
prf.mechsimPath="G:\\stock_logiciel_et_plugin\\3d\\povray\\megapov\\bin"
....
#-------------------------------------------
# please document : renderer binary name
#-------------------------------------------
if os.sep=='/': # posix : linux/mac
prf.megapov10Name="megapov"
prf.megapov07Name="megapov"
prf.mlpov08Name="mlpov"
prf.povray35Name="povray"
prf.povray36Name="povray"
prf.povraySubName="povray_sub"
prf.mechsimName="megapov"
else: # win32 . win98/nt/2000/xp
prf.megapov10Name="megapov.exe"
prf.megapov07Name="megapov.exe"
prf.mlpov08Name="mlpov.exe"
prf.povray35Name="pvengine.exe"
prf.povray36Name="pvengine.exe"
prf.povraySubName="pvengine_sub.exe"
prf.mechsimName="megapov.exe" |
3/
by default to take in account the improvement of a new script
version, Povanim uses standard settings but you can update
all of them with the content of a profil file. At the first launching
of the script you have to save this profil with the dedicated button .
After that, exit and modify the OVERLOADPROFIL
and OLDPROFIL variables (as
for the binary path use the alt-f shortcut to jumpt to the
variable line).
Download
For the official version 2.45
The current form
of Povanim
is a function library. This library is compiled and must be called by
a
"launching" script. These two files are in the archive/record that can
be downloaded at this address:
Povanim245_03.zip
For the SVN win 32 version 2.49b (and after) build with
python 2.5 available
at zoo-logique.org/3D.Blender
Povanim249_02f-p25.zip
For the official version 2.49b build with python 2.6
:
Povanim249_02f-p26.zip
For future version CVS
bf-blender2.33:
There is an
experimental version
of Blender which makes enough significant . In this case it is
necessary
to use the following files.
If there is
still the version
using python 2.2
Povanim4cvsp22.zip
If there is
still the version
using python 2.3
Povanim4cvsp23.zip
Old version,
For
the amateurs who have a Blender Publisher 2.23 version, here is a
version
of Povanim adjusted to this python API of the software ::
Povanim
pour Blender :povanim223_17.zip
These two
versions 2.25 et
2.26/227 are no more longer followed and developped . A gallery
of
the current possibilities of Povanim is on this
page.
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