In article <3eb574c2@news.povray.org>,
 "Barron Gillon" <gil### [at] purdueedu> wrote:

> This may be a newbie question, but...  Is there a way to save a heightfield
> between frames of an animation so I don't have to rebuild it every single
> frame?  It occurs to me that most of the time spent rendering my current
> animation goes toward rebuilding the same heightfield over and over again.
> Any help would be much appreciated!

Building a height field does not usually take much time, and it is 
unlikely for any saved version to load much faster. A simple scene with 
a 1600*1200 height field takes less than a second to parse on this 
350MHz machine. Are you talking about the height field macros in 
shapes.inc? The mechanism for saving those is pretty well explained in 
the documentation: use something other than "" for the filename.

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