I'm only fluent in Pov.  Barely conversant in Java. In high school and
college, was exposed to Basic and FORTRAN.
What's C? (only half in jest!)

That's the boat I am in. Okay, perhaps I'll try to set this up in Java, but I
kind of lost all respect for and got disgusted with the anal retentiveness of
its inventor and set my Java books aside.........

Spock wrote:

> I really like the whole flocking thing you are doing so
> (of course) I grabbed the source when you posted it.
>
> I was surprised to see how you were using POV as a
> generic programming language to generate frames.  I
> might have chosen one of the more conventional ways
> to do this (C, C++, Java, VB, etc.) for the extra power
> these languages provide.  I expect there will be folks
> who disagree with me, but I think the POV language
> is best suited to scene description, not complex math
> for animations.  You have proven that it works, but it
> still seems like a strange match to me.
>
> That said I would separate the generation from the
> rendering by using two completely different systems
> and leave your ini file set up for rendering only.
>
> Not helpful, but opinionated :-)    Keep 'em coming!
>
> Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
> news:37beb57a@news.povray.org...
> > I know how to animate using the POVRAY.INI file.  The problem is that I
> > have one file that I want to ONLY RUN ONCE!!!!! as it generates my INC
> > of positions for my animation.  Then I have a file that I want to run
> > several times as it ticks through the frames.
> >
> > Twice this morning, I have forgotten to edit my POVRAY.INI file back to
> > make pov only run more than one frame.  Thus, after a long computation,
> > it rewrites the whole thing over from scratch!
> >
> > Q: Is there someway within the file to set up the number of frames?  Do
> > I have to edit POVRAY.INI each time?
> >
> > The docs again on this issue seem to be preaching to the coders.  >:-p
> > I see  phrases that I'm used to editing in my POVRAY.INI file, but no
> > indication of where to type or use the phrases.
> >

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