In article <38CD5D57.247F8422@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

>  One thing I am slightly confused about is if you are using a complicated
> scene description language to make a new scene and then convert it to
> POV-Ray won't you still be limited to what POV-Ray can actually do
> proceeduraly ?
> 
>  If POV-Ray can already do it proceeduraly why not do it in native Pov
> in the first place ?

POV can do these things(or fake them), but to do them while restricted 
to the POV syntax would take a long time and be nearly impossible to 
read and understand. You could write a scene in C-SDL and then convert 
to POV, but you probably wouldn't want to read the POV file, while the 
C-SDL code would be much simpler and easier to read/write. For 
programmers, at least. :-)

Another thing that could be done instead of or in combination with is 
doing most of the parsing work in the converter and outputing a bunch of 
POV objects. This would be especially useful for tree/particle system 
generators. The POV file would parse much faster than the equivalent 
generator written in POV-Script. Of course, this couldn't be done for 
most includes...

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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