https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2467&p=33125#p33125
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melamkish
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 04:22 AM


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It would seem that citygen v1.5 may not be 100% compatible with POVray 3.6.  When I try to render in Povray I keep geting parse errors, which makes me believe it lags a few revisions. These syntax errors generated by citygen may be why the file ends up with no vertices or faces in Poseray.

The very first time I tried doing this same thing, I was able to correct the file errors and get a successful render, but that was over 6 months ago. I will have to do some more experimenting to figure out what I did.  Once I get that far, I can see if Poseray can convert a POV file to OBJ.

But this may or may not be possible.  The technical information buried in the POVray help file states that it is easy to convert to, but difficult to convert from POV to other formats.  This is because POVray is similar to a scripting language and the data is not stored in the same manner or format used by most rendering platforms.  So, although Poseray can read v3.6 POV files, it may not be able to convert the data to an obj file.  I will continue to research this weekend and see if I can get an answer.