Torsten Crass wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> When populating a scene with loads of macro-generated objects, I thought
> it would be a nice idea to run those time-consuming macros only once,
> write their "return values" (in this case: unions of triangles) to an
> .inc file and re-use this file when further experimenting with the
> scene. However, I couldn't figure out a way to write those objects to a
> file - the #write directive apparently only accepts strings, numbers and
> vectors.
> Does anybody have a clue how one could save macro-generated objects to a
> file - i.e. use PovRay for creating its own .inc files?

You can find some samples for using the #write directive in the standard
include file 'shapes.inc'.  As you said #write supports strings, floats
and vectors.  Since all objects consist of such elements you can write
them quite easily.

Christoph

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