Rune wrote:
> 
> A mesh object can easily be rather big. To have a separate mesh object for
> every frame in the animation is completely nuts. Furthermore, if the
> animation is handled in the mesh modeler, it becomes extremely difficult to
> integrate it into POV-Ray. How can you make sure the mesh object interacts
> correctly with its surroundings? Even the smallest tweaking means that you
> have to do several steps of conversions before you can check the result in
> POV-Ray.
> 

I think you can do quite a lot with Povray's scripting features, for
example replace the vertices with macro calls like:

mesh2 {
  vertex_vectors {
    ...
    Transform1(<0.3, 0.7, 2.9>)
    ...

With a macro containing a vtransform().  Weighted transforms are also
possible with this method.

Christoph

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IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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