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Can't get the APNG thing to work, I see the option 'PNG/APNG' but trying to save it and nothing happens...


All I can do is squash or expand things, not artistic enough to warp it into an actual image (!)

G'mic's layers morph plugin doesn't really morph, it mostly just cross fades. I have made warping animations with gimp's Iwarp before, but won't post them because they're not politically correct...

I've used a few morphing plugins before where you set the morphing points for the before/after images. It looks more realistic.

Most of the time i use flash for morphing objects. IWarp is great in a pinch though.


You don't have to save as an animated PNG image you can use GIF. BUT try removing the file-png.exe from the program directory /lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins folder and GIMP should recognize either APNG multi layers or PNG single layer images.

OK I'll try that thanks.

Great got that working now, a 720 layer 640x360 animation exported as an APNG is 73MB in this case, 55 MB's more than a GIF made with the same images (optimized) - to be expected as the colour's certainly are better in the APNG... anyway now we've strayed from the original topic of this thread (POV-Ray) by some margin so I'll leave it at that for now.
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Wow! These are all pretty sharp! I do have to say that the auto engine video was amazing!

I've used povray for creating objects I've used in mapping, and to create maps as well. It is extremely powerful, but great and easy for mathematical/scripted/repetitive shapes.


I made this paddlewheel for a top down paddlewheeler map:


Palm trees (I was able to randomize a few dozen in size and leaf orientation so they wouldn't repeat when used):


Asteroids from a videogame:


I've also used POVRay to render height-fields of objects,shapes and entire maps, like this one:


-Rob A>

A couple more for fun - cross eye stereogram renders of a planet from a heightfield:


And the cover art for a dice game package:


-Rob A>

Really good outcomes RobA, lots of potential in the program I can see... have left it gathering dust in the corner of my desktop for now but hope to get back into it again soon.
Cheers