Hi Rob,
I like your idea; In fact I came to Pov because, some years ago,
I wanted to show my wife what our house could be,
and she was not confortable with blueprint and section.

At this time I wrote my own "real time" wireframe renderer,
and it was possible ti visit the house using keypad.
But the image was so poor that I gave uo as soon as I discovered Pov...

To do what you say, I think that I would write something like:

#declare Fondation_appear = 0.15
#declare Fondation_disappear = 0.55

#if ((clock > Fondation_appear) & (clock < Fondation_disappear))
    #debug "Including Fondation\n"
    #include Fondation.inc
#end

and so on.


Chaps
"Rob Brown-Bayliss" <on_### [at] clearnetnz> wrote in message
news:3bc1287a@news.povray.org...
> Hi, I have a plan in mind, but being an extreme newbie would likt to
> check with eveyone to make sure it's not a total waste of time.
>
> I want to model and animate the construction stages of a new home.
> Starting with the foundations and working up to a final walk through the
> house.
>
> I want to have the camera circle the house as it's built.
>
> What I had thought was place all the parts inside #ifdef #end statements,
> and use some variant of teh clock timing include files full of
> declarations,
>
> eg, a clock setting X include a file the #delcares foundations = 1 and
> then the image for that frame will sow the foundations etc etc.
>
> Is this feasable, or is there a much better way ?
>
> Thanks
>
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>
>   Rob Brown-Bayliss
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