Hi all,

wonder if someone can suggest some methods for dealing with this:

Currently: Whenever I want to have multiple steps in a scene, I do something 
like the following:

#declare Steps = 10;
#declare Step = floor(Steps*clock);
#declare Clock = mod(clock*Steps,1);

#if(Step=0)
    //Some rules for step 0 of the animation
#else
    //Some rules for after step 0, usually keeping an object stable
#end

As you can imagine, this becomes cumbersome very quickly if an object is 
doing different things in each step - and it means a lot of nested IFs. In 
the demo above, the steps are all of even Length, but that is easily 
resolved with a bit of logic and an array.

An alternative that sprang to mind was just to copy/paste into multiple 
scenes but that means that if I decide to change something in a previous, I 
have to propogate my changes up and down the timeline - also cumbersome.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated

(whilst writing this I realised there should be a switch statement of some 
kind and *tada* there is - but still, if anyone has any suggestions, please 
let me know)

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