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> I'm preparing to do a high quality render of an animation I've setup.
> Because of the large size of the animation (15,800 frames, 720x480) I'm
> looking for any way to improve rendering speed.  The animation is
> divided into 22 "scenes", each one of which is regulated using if
> statements.  I was wondering if the material between the #if and #end
> portions of a scene are still parsed if the #if statement is false.  Or,
> in other words, if it would be faster to delete or comment out portions
> of the animation not being used in the current round of rendering.
>
> Bryan
According to the documentation, the portion between #if and #end is skipped
if the condition is false

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/241/


Marc

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