Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to call the present system time into a pov file? So that I
> can use it to show the correct angles of the sun and moon? I think I can do
> it using a text program which has a time stamp, but I wonder if POV does
> it...
> 
> I don't find a reference to it in the help file, and none of the options in
> the editor look like it.

If you, or someone else, can do some C (or whatever) programming, you
could
use the "Shell-out to Operating System" command in the .ini file, to
call
a program that will write the time info into a file that you will #read
inside
povray script.

Fabien.

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