POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Reading Consequtive Images : Re: Reading Consequtive Images Server Time
12 Aug 2024 09:16:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reading Consequtive Images  
From: PoD
Date: 6 Mar 1999 16:45:53
Message: <36E1A215.1159@merlin.net.au>
Here's a generic way to do it

#declare BaseName = "ev_a"
#declare Extension = ".inc"
#declare NameDigits = 8-strlen(BaseName); // or just a number
#declare LastFrame = 575;
#declare FirstFrame = 1;
#declare Frame = clock * (LastFrame-FirstFrame) + FirstFrame;
#declare FileName = concat( BaseName, str(Frame,-NameDigits,0),
Extension )
#debug concat(FileName,"\n")

Cheers, PoD.

PS
It'd be much easier with access to POV's variables, such as frame number
;)


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