sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) (11/22/89)
****** PLEASE EMAIL ALL RESPONSES TO sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu ****** A while back I was perusing various ftp sites and I "down loaded" a variety of Ray Tracers. Unfortunately, most of them do not have any helpful documentation. Can anyone out there help me get information on the following ray tracers? 1)OhtaTracer 2)Rayshade 3)RpiTracer 4)MTVTracer I am interested in getting these up and working on my Amiga 2000. I want information on file input formats, how to compile the tracer, how to run the tracer, and any other information. QRT and DBWRender have enough information for me to use them. These others do not. Case in point: I compiled the RpiTracer on the SUN 3/50 workstation I am using by using the Makefile supplied. I used one of the test images (although I do not know if it worked because the input required several parameters for which I did not know the appropriate values, so I guessed. They were, scenename, resolution (the one I wasn't exactly sure about), and outfile. The first and last were simple enough. Well, I got the thing compiled, ran the program on the file test.2, forgot the outfile, found that an outfile called 2 had been created, and got stuck. There is NO documentation on what to do with the output file in order to see it. There ARE about 2 pages describing the input file format, and 5 sample input files, but how do I view the file? Any help on any of these tracers would be appreciated. Scott Sutherland sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu