Short: MidNight Modeller V2.0A Type: edit/pc Author: David Taylor (DavidT4177@aol.com) Uploader: Welcome to ******************** Mid Night Modeller ******************** Version 2.0A Copyright 1994-95 by David Taylor MNM is one of the most powerful modelers for POV-Ray to date, if not the most powerful shareware program available. MNM features very complex surface creation commands, and Drawing Aids only found in high end CAD programs costing $1,000+. This program has lots to offer for the novice CAD person, to the experienced POV ray-tracer. To be more specific, here's a list of some main features of MNM: - Super VGA support with 256 colors - A Customizable Interface - Menus, Hot-Keys, Interface colors, fonts, mouse cursor and sensitivity, startup scenes and Video modes. - Support for Primitive objects - Sphere, Cone, Torus, Cube/Box, Plane, Disc, HeightField and Cylinder. - Complex objects - PolyMesh, Polyline, Extrude/Revolution and Cone SWEEPs, Coons Patch, Ruled Surface, Continuous Bezier Patches, Face, Triangle, Smooth Triangle, Wedge, Pyramid, Splines and PCube. - Higher level objects - Screw thread, Stair case, Spring/Spiral, Pipe, Circle and Arc. - Support for Area Lights, Spot Lights, Point Lights and a Camera. - Multiple Viewports - Export and Import RAW and DXF files. - Interactive Panning and Zooming of the 2D Planes, and Interactive Camera Placement in 3D views, all via SHIFT keys. - Object Shading previews. - Layers allows you to hide, apply CSG's, textures, Colors (for visual reference) to objects and more... - SNAP, GRID, AXIS, BLIPS, ORTHO and other drawing aids such as Point filters, ENDpoint and MIDpoints for setting exact points. - MIRROR, ARRAY, JOIN, MOVE, COPY, ERASE, GRAVITY, ASSIGN, PARRAY (polyline arraying), TRANSFORM, THICKEN (for polylines), ROTATE, SCALE, EXPLODE and other editing commands for manipulating objects. - A FULL Texture Editor which supports every Pigment, Normal, and Finish statement options (accept Filters for image_maps), and also supports Layered and Tiled textures. - Supports every POV command-line option with Palette, Display modes, Background and FOG options as well. - RENDERING: MNM runs POV for you with all the correct command line options, when renedering is complete, MNM is reloaded with your current file. - DOS Shell - ZoomIN-ALL-PREVIOUS, Pan, RedrawAll, Front, Back, Top, Bottom, Left, Right, World and 3D views. - Plenty of Variables for customizing MNM for your own needs. - and much more...