When I first read this, I wasn't sure what you meant.  Are you saying that
you made an object in sPatch and then duplicated it many times in POV-Ray?

If that's the case, I would suggest exporting the object(s) as dxf, then
convert those to POV-Ray mesh using 3Dwin or crossroads.  Then make sure the
file #declares the triangles as a mesh and not as a union.

Using a declared mesh won't use large amounts of memory like bicubic
patches, since the triangles only need to be parsed once.

If that isn't the case, I don't think I can help.

-Mike

Daniel Harris wrote:

> Dear PovPeople,
> Just made myself a link object and decided to export it to a povray
> format where I then told it to link to one another in a cube...Having
> settled on a 10^3 structure I set it to render, (10 minutes later it was
> still parsing ;-( ) All in all it had increased my swap to +200Mb
>
> When exporting to povray from sPatch is there anyway to slim the
> code...My scene uses 100% primitive shapes...The only way I thought of
> doing it will be to convert my scene manually with a manually written
> primitive object using Povray's primitives. Will this bring down the
> parse time and save my swap space?
>
> Any help would be most helpful.
>
> Dan.

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