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30 Jul 2024 16:16:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Draw Vistas Option  
From: Carl Hoff
Date: 31 Jan 2004 23:54:11
Message: <401c8673@news.povray.org>
> From the code, it looks like blue boxes are compound objects, red
> boxes are lone objects.

Thanks, that fits with what I've seen I believe.

> You have 3 frame level objects and the default +MB setting, and
> still get bounding slabs?

Yes.

> The default is 25, and the number considered is the number of
> frame level objects. In fact, whether or not to build the slabs is
> decided right after printing that information, in
> Build_Bounding_Slabs() in bbox.cpp. The code's a little odd,
> but should work as expected. Maybe there's an .ini file setting
> or something overriding the default...

According to Mikes post the master POVRAY.INI file sets
it to 3.  I haven't checked but that fits with what I'm seeing.

Thanks for the help guys,
Carl


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