In it's simplest form all you do is add the keyword 'clock' to any variable or
float or vector you might have, whether it be in a color, scale, rotate (in
degrees), translate, color map index, etc. etc.; then use a *.ini file as the
guide for the output frames, something like:

Output_File_Type=T
Output_File_Name=C:\POVanim\Create\
Width=160
Height=120
Antialias_Threshold=0.3
Antialias_Depth=3
Sampling_Method=1
Jitter=0.0
Antialias=On
Initial_Frame=0
Final_Frame=99
;Subset_Start_Frame=25
;Subset_End_Frame=50
Initial_Clock=0
Final_Clock=1
Cyclic_Animation=On

There have been many other ways of doing animation, one of the best known is
probably Chris Colefax's clock modifier include:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/
And a tutorial page concerning it:
http://www.puzzlecraft.com/cm/ClockMod.html

Bob

"Eric Denman" <ade### [at] utxsvsccutexasedu> wrote in message
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| nevermind.....I figured it out (by reading earlier discussions on the topic
| :)).....I agree that it is hard to understand how to do animation in general
|
| Eric Denman wrote:
|
| > New to animation, and I've tried a couple of animation utilities for
| > POV-RAY....I'd like to have an include file type animator (such as
| > Dave's from the POV-RAY links page), but I always have a problem.
| > Dave's email is apparently outdated (and as he made the program in 1997,
| > I'm not surprised).  I looked in the POV-Ray documentation but couldn't
| > find anything that explains how to animated in povray.  Is there a
| > tutorial that I'm missing in the documentation or maybe online?  I don't
| > need to do anything complicated, just trying to get in on the ground
| > level.  Thanks for anything
|

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