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26 Jun 2024 14:16:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Animation and memory allocation for materials  
From: Hughes, B 
Date: 15 Jun 2004 21:03:25
Message: <40cf9c5d@news.povray.org>
"FlyerX" <fly### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:web.40cf900396923fd1108ebaa00@news.povray.org...
>
> My question is: During the animation rendering are the image maps from the
> materials reallocated for each frame or are they defined only once?

Reset for every render, animation or not. Same as all objects, textures, and
variables in the scene.

I only know of the custom patch of version 3.1 called MegaPOV (up to version
0.6.3 or 0.7), prior to its 1.0 release based on official version 3.5, which
allowed retaining variables and objects in memory between frames. Not sure
if it was ever completely problem-free, nor do I recall whether or not
materials (or image_map) were possible to retain in memory.

You might want to see  http://megapov.inetart.net/manual/old_megapov.html

Bob H.


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