Isak Lundin wrote:
> 
> Hi. I have a problem that should be easy to solve for those who've spent
> more time with POV than myself. I simply can't make POV animate anything at
> all. The clock variable is set to 1.0, I've tried running all sorts of
> tutorials, and example files that came with pov, and all it does is render
> the first frame. Or, the last frame, to be more exact. If I, for example,
> use "rotate 45*clock*y", on an object it displays the object rotated 45
> degrees, and does nothing else.

I'm hoping you are using the windows version. From the tools menu choose
to edit the master povray.ini file. Add the following to the ini file.
To activate the clock feature uncomment the lines that apply to what you
want to do. The minimum you need to specify is the Initial_Frame and
Final_Frame which tells POV-Ray how many frames of the animation you wish
to render. After you adjust the parameters to your needs and they are
uncommented the clock function will now work for you. Do not forget to
comment those lines again when you are through running your animation or
scenes without a clock variable will render the same scene by whatever
amount you have specified for the final frame.

Also read up in the docs if you wish to see what the command line switches
are for these same functions. Some people prefer to activate these functions
from the command line instead of from within an .inin file. Your choice.

;clock=1
;Initial_Frame=1
;Final_Frame=20
;Cyclic_Animation = on
;Subset_Start_Frame=6
;Subset_End_Frame=10

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