On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Chris Huff wrote:

> In article 
> <Pin### [at] belialrenonvus>, 
> <cre### [at] belialrenonvus> wrote:
> 
> > Good!:) btw since we're kinda on the subject, how can I shorten the 
> > box {<-0.5,-0.5,-0.5>,<0.5,0.5,0.5> } 
> > 
> > see I always make my boxes that big then scale the suckers to 
> > whatever I'm doing, the thing is typing all those 0.5's can be tiring 
> > (I get around that with cut and paste, but still if there is some 
> > shortform...I'd love to know it :)
> 
> You could use this:
> #declare Box = box {<-0.5,-0.5,-0.5>,<0.5,0.5,0.5> }
> 
> And then make your boxes with
> object {Box
> ...
> }

Doh! I should have thought of that! :) 

 
> Or you can leave the 0's out:
> box {<-.5,-.5,-.5>,<.5,.5,.5> }
> And to shorten it further, you can use the feature of POV that promotes 
> floats to vectors when necessary:
> box {-0.5, 0.5}
> or
> box {-.5,.5}
>

Yeah...ok

> This isn't as easy to immediately understand, though, and is just as 
> long as using a Box variable.
> 
> 
> If you really want to eliminate keypresses, try this:
> #macro Box()
> box {<-.5,-.5,-.5>,<.5,.5,.5>
> #end
> 
> You would use the macro this way:
> 
> Box()
> ...object stuff, textures, etc go here...
> }
> 
> You could use a shorter name for the macro, but you can't eliminate the 
> parentheses.

Kewl.....sorta like #define eh? but without the object{} thing... Can I do
that for CSG stuff too? I use CSG a LOT (pages of the stuff) this could
save some typing :)  

 
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> Chris Huff
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> 
>

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