POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation: Re: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation

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From: Warp
Date: 11 Mar 2007 12:11:35
Message: <45f43847@news.povray.org>

Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> If your heightfield is generated from a function, you can save it to a file 
> during the first frame. Then, you reload it for each subsequent frame. It should 
> be faster then recreating it everytime.

  There's no way of storing a heightfield in a file. You can store a mesh,
but a mesh is not the same thing as a heightfield (lighting is different).

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                                                          - Warp

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