POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : POV Seems to Parse Everything for Every Frame : Re: POV Seems to Parse Everything for Every Frame Server Time
27 Sep 2024 18:17:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV Seems to Parse Everything for Every Frame  
From: Warp
Date: 13 May 2004 19:25:07
Message: <40a403d2@news.povray.org>
Bret <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I'm currently running an animation that (so far) has taken 23 hours to parse
> and 1.5 hours to render.  It seems to be parsing everything for every
> frame.  Is there anyway to convince POV to just read the files in once?

  Nope.

  At least the old MegaPOV has persistent variables which could be used
for this purpose, so you should take a look at that.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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