[Visualpython-users] povexport of vpython materials

[Jasper S. <jas...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

It's been a few years since I used vpython, but I'm happy to see there is
still activity and development of this useful tool. For my new project I'm
using povexport, which exports the scenes nicely into pov-ray format.
However when I look at the resulting pictures the material information seems
lost. Everything ends up looking like I selected materials.diffuse for it.

Digging into the documentation I found that pov-ray uses a 'finish' tag to
specify things such as reflectivity etc. Tweaking the finish tag parameters
manually I quickly rendered something which was looking at least acceptable.
Now my question is whether you guys have experience mapping the vpython
materials to the pov-ray finish tag, and if you would be willing to share
parameters? Maybe someone has even started improving the povexport module to
include the finish tag?

Kind regards,
Jasper