POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.animations: Parsing scene files in an animation: Re: Parsing scene files in an animation

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : Parsing scene files in an animation : Re: Parsing scene files in an animation		Server Time 28 Jul 2024 14:24:44 EDT (-0400)

From: Ken
Date: 8 Dec 1999 17:25:56
Message: <384EDA33.4C12056@pacbell.net>

"Jon S. Berndt" wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to get at least parts of a scene which do not change to be
> parsed only one time as an animation is being generated? I have one object
> which is 80000 triangles and parsing that each time is a big time killer. It
> never changes, just translates, so it's safe to use a "stale" version each
> frame.
> 
> Jon

It is currently not possible with the official version and I am not even sure
that there is a patched version of POV-Ray yet that will allow you to do this.
I believe that Nathan Kopp and Ron Parker have discussed this in some detail
in the past but I do not know if they have made any progress yet to allow this
to happen.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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