sascha wrote:
> and no, some animations can't
> be rendered using POV's built in "animation" features, e.g. if large
> meshes are generated per frame

This doesn't have anything to do with the original topic but all right, 
for those who didn't know:

When you have a set of scenes

scene_a.pov
scene_b.pov
...
scene_x.pov

and you want to render them all you can *always* do so, no matter how 
large meshes or whatever are generated in those scenes, by rendering the 
following animation:

#switch (frame_number)

   #case (1)
     #include "scene_a.pov"
   #break
   #case (2)
     #include "scene_a.pov"
   #break
   ...
   #case (X)
     #include "scene_x.pov"
   #break

#end

Of course if you use a numerical naming scheme for the scenes you can 
further reduce that to a one-liner but that's just for the lazy...

Christoph

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