"Leroy Whetstone" <lrw### [at] joplincom> wrote in message 
news:4A7### [at] joplincom...
>  I'm sure some one has made animated credits. I just started to make my 
> own. I was wondering how ya did yours?
>  I was thinking of a single POV file that uses an 'include' or 'txt' files 
> for the credit's text. That POV file could be reused for other animations.
>
> Have Fun!
>

I didn't ever do animated credits, but the Scroll macro on the Object 
Collection at 
http://lib.povray.org/collection/scroll/chrisb%202.0/scroll.html includes 
various macros for building text objects that you may find useful. For 
example, the Scroll_MakeTextObject macro can (amongst other things) full 
justify text. If you wanted to then add the text to a paper scroll, it's 
easy to animate it rolling off one scroll onto the other. There's an 
animated example using a brick pattern (illustrated next to the 
Scroll_BottomRollLength setting described on the html page). The same 
technique should work just as well for animating a scroll with text on it.

Regards,
Chris B.

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