Fixed it :)

#declare accel= pow(2*clock,4)*20.5;
#declare lift=  pow(2.0*clock,(1/5));
#declare Powerup =  pow(5.0*clock,(1/10))/100;

Yes yes, I know, my code is messy


"Data Banks" <da_### [at] ihugcomau> wrote in message 
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> "Data Banks" <da_### [at] ihugcomau> wrote in message 
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>> Never mind, think I found it. Change ^ to e, right?
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> Well, that didn't work.
> Ah,
> exp(A) Exponential of A. Returns the value of e raised to the power A 
> where e is the base of the natural logarithm, i.e. the non-repeating value 
> approximately equal to 2.71828182846.
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>> "Data Banks" <da_### [at] ihugcomau> wrote in message 
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>>> Okay, it's been ages since I tinkered with a file of mine but I fired it 
>>> up today. It'd been started in POV 3.1, then MegaPOV 0.7 and eventually 
>>> POV3.5, without any hassles. But in 3.6 it hits the declare to set the 
>>> (primative) acceleration control for an object's motion and I get a 
>>> parse error.
>>>
>>> #declare accel= (2*clock)^4*20.5;
>>> #declare lift=  (2.0*clock)^(1/5);
>>> #declare Powerup =  ((5.0*clock)^(1/10))/100;
>>>
>>> It's moaning when it hits the ^4. Same again at every ^
>>> Okay, so I could probably do it another way but I haven't slept in 2 
>>> days & I'm not all that good with animation anyway. What am I missing 
>>> here?
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