spl wrote:
> I am rendering animations of scenes that use fairly large image_maps
> (somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.2 GByte, all told).  Needless to say,
> these files require a significant chunk of time to load, taking up to about
> a third of the total rendering time per frame.
> 
> Is there some way to tell povray that the scene's geometry and image_maps
> aren't being changed for every tick of the clock and that previously loaded
> data can be used?

No, but you can be completely sure that for an animation, even of 
cinema-like resolution, 2.2 GB of images is unnecessary.

Christoph

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