Chris Cason wrote:

> With respect to the doc/view concept, a parsed scene is a 'document' and a
> render is a 'view'. The 'document' is everything in the scene except the
> camera settings, and the 'view' is the camera settings, output resolution,
> output file type, gamma correction, and so forth. Each document and view has
> its own internal identifier and the POV-Ray code uses these ID's when
> communicating between the front and back ends of the codebase. When a scene
> is succesfully parsed the frontend is told about it, and it then using that
> ID creates a view and subsequently asks the backend to render that view.

Would this also allow a "portal" texture type to be used, where the 
surface of an object is basically a "view" of a separate "document"?

...Chambers
(...after a long hybernation)

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