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POV-Ray include file exporter plug-in for milkshape 3D

Having made models using Milkshape for a while, I was always kind of jealous of the 3D Studio Max users who could produce great looking preview renders of their work using the Brazil Rendering system to give nice diffuse models with soft shadows. Not having money to burn, I wondered if their was a free renderer I could use and decided to use POV-Ray with its diffuse lighting option.

However, the original POV-Ray file exporter in Milkshape doesn't produce anything useable by POV-Ray 3.5 so it didn't look good. My first sucessful attempt required me to export from Milkshape in OBJ format and then convert it to a POV-Ray file using a 3rd party tool. The output was ok, but still required a lot of editing of the files to make them work.

Realising I wasnt the only person in the world who wanted to do the exact same thing as me, I downloaded the Milkshape SDK and tried to figure out how to write a plug-in. The ironic thing is, I cant program in C++. I do however use a lot of other C++'like languages so after a bit of hacking I had something that works. Originally I was only interested in exporting meshes with bitmap textures but I expanded on it to export other model attributes. I figured this would make the plug-in more useful to more people.

The plug-in generates a POV-Ray 3.5 include file which, obviously, you can include into POV-Ray scenes. The output include file is broken down as follows:

* Milkshape groups are exported as individually ID'd smooth_mesh objects with uvw mapping co-ordinates.
* Materials are exported as indiviually ID'd materials with the following parameters:
* Ambient colour
* Diffuse colour (not exported for meshes with bitmap textures)
* Specular colour and highlight strength (colour is greyscale, based on the red component)
* Transparency (doesn't support the alpha bitmap option)
* Texture (version 1.1 now supports non BMP textures)
* Meshes and textures are bound together as individual POV-Ray objects with their own ID's
* Sub-groups are joined together using "union" into one model with the ID "milkshape_model"

You can choose to just insert the final model into your scene or add individual objects, meshes and textures as you wish.

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