"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote...
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 02:59:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>
> >If you mean the distribution would contain:
> >
> >pvengine.exe
> >postproc.exe
> >
> >you run the risk of being in the same boat as if you were
> >to just use photoshop.exe to do your post processing work.
>
> Then how about MAX and all its plugins and post-processing filters?
> They are separate executables (well, not exes but still machine code)

Exactly.  It'd be great to be able to do something like that with POV (using
DLL-like things), but there is currently no possible way to do that in a
completely platform-independent way.  Using two separate executables,
passing information between them using a file, and linking them together
using some sort of a script (or POV's current built-in functionality for
running other processes before and after each frame) provides very similar
functionality as a DLL, but in a platform-independent way.  If it's legal
for those commercial rendering engines, it should be legal for POV, too.

Maybe this would require changing the rule in the IRTC.  If so, I think we
should change the rule.  If anything, the rules should encourage use of
POV-Ray, not discourage it.

-Nathan

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