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From: FlyerX
Date: 24 Nov 2004 21:55:41
Message: <41a549ad$1@news.povray.org>

POV-Ray 3.6.1
Moray 3.5
WinXP SP2

Hello,

I have been running into a problem with PoseRay and Moray. Seems that 
Moray uses for its material names some of the predefined POV-Ray names 
in the standard include files, like textures.inc, leading to name 
conflicts. This can be surpassed easily by renaming the material in 
Moray but I want a more automatic fix for this problem. (Bronze_Metal is 
an example of a name that conflicts)

PoseRay uses #include statements for the standard POV-Ray 
material/texture files at the top of a main material file that is itself 
included at the top the mesh file. The UDO created by PoseRay then uses 
the mesh file in Moray. The standard include files are only used if a 
POV-Ray material is applied to the mesh.

My question is:

Is there a way to make an standard include file not propagate its 
definitions outside of the calling POV file and without modifying the 
standard include files? I know about the #local vs #define but that 
would require a rewrite of the POV-Ray include files.

Thanks

FlyerX
http://user.txcyber.com/~sgalls/

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