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From: Tim Nikias
Date: 10 Aug 2007 04:44:49
Message: <46bc2581$1@news.povray.org>

Mike Williams wrote:
> POV variables don't persist between frames.
> 
> When you start parsing frame 2, all the variables are undefined. They
> don't have the values that that they ended up with at the end of frame
> 1. You either have to re-calculate the values from scratch in each
> frame, or write the calculated values to a file and read them back in
> subsequent frames.

Shameless plug (and an attempt to help): If you just save ALL variables 
in an array, it might be very easy to use my I/O-Macros to read/write 
arrays to disk...

http://www.nolights.de/rnd/development.html#iomacros

Regards,
Tim

-- 
aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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