Updated: July 5 2005

BTGA2POV (BetterTGA2POV) is a command line driven utility which will allow you to read in an 8, 24 or 32 bit uncompressed Targa (TGA) image file and output a POV include file where each pixel's color from the original image has been mapped to a primitive.

Usage is pretty straight forward, just call btga2pov passing the name of the TGA file as an argument. Optionally you can specify an integer from 0 - 5 to change the primitive shape (sphere, disc, cone, box, cylinder x-axis, cylinder y-axis). See the README file that comes with the source code for more information on usage.

I've created this for Linux using the basic C library. If you want to try to compile it for other operating systems or libraries you may need to adjust the code for the time.h functions. There's a Makefile which is probably your easiest option or you can see the README file for complete compile instructions.

Requirements: C library

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