POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Getting the current date and time for POV-Ray : Re: Getting the current date and time for POV-Ray Server Time
2 Jul 2024 19:47:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Getting the current date and time for POV-Ray  
From: Leroy Whetstone
Date: 26 Mar 2010 23:44:31
Message: <4BAD8D6F.4040409@joplin.com>
clipka wrote:
> Kene schrieb:
> 
>> Actually, it seems a better idea is to allow the user to enter a 
>> desired date
>> and time as part of the settings for the scene.
> 
> 
> ... especially since you have no other way to get the current time & 
> date from SDL anyway, unless you use a patched version (such as MegaPOV 
> for instance) ;-)

I wrote a little C++ program that would write the time and date in to a 
text file. I've tried to use the Pre_Scene_Command or Pre_Frame_Command 
in the ini to run the program then let the pov file read that file. But
I never did get it to work.


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