POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : string problem : Re: string problem Server Time
31 Jul 2024 00:31:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: string problem  
From: Sherry Shaw
Date: 1 Mar 2008 12:46:22
Message: <47c9966e@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Dennis Miller escribió:
>> I am trying to load a long sequence of TGA files into this image map:
>> image_map { tga concat("D:\\sketches\\follow", str(clock*600,-4,0), 
>> ".tga")
>>
>> in the folder Sketches folder on my D drive there are 1800 files 
>> starting with
>> follow0000.tga
>> to
>> follow1800.tga
>>
>> Can someone see a problem with the string here? I want to read in only 
>> the first 600 while the clock moves from 0.1 to 1.
>>
>> and I am getting a Parse Error that says: Cannot open TGA image.
>> thanks much for any help.
> 
> This won't solve the problem, but will help you find out why it's not 
> working:
> 
> #declare ImageName = concat("D:\\sketches\\follow", str(clock*600,-4,0), 
> ".tga");
> #debug concat("Attempting to load ", ImageName, "\n")
> 
> image_map {
>    tga ImageName
>    //...
> }

Ah, great minds work alike, I see!  ;)

--Sherry Shaw


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