Paul Bourke wrote:
> 
> My question now is how can I automate this texture handling without the 
> tedious in the way I'm doing it now, just repeating each declaration. 
> In the end I hope to have "hundreds" of textures.
> 
> So I will have one of these for each texture
> 
> #declare texture01 = texture { pigment { image_map { tga "textures/tex01.tga" once }
} finish { texfinish } }
> #declare texture02 = texture { pigment { image_map { tga "textures/tex02.tga" once }
} finish { texfinish } }
>    :
>    :
>    etc, 35 times

Use arrays:

#declare Textures=array[35]

#local Cnt=0;

#while (Cnt<35)
   #declare Textures[Cnt] =
     texture {
       pigment {
         image_map {
           tga concat("textures/tex",str(-2, 0, Cnt),".tga")
           once
         }
       }
       finish { texfinish }
     }
   #local Cnt=Cnt+1;
#end

(Untested - could contain errors)

Note you should be careful with using all lower case custom identifiers 
- if future versions of POV-Ray introduce keywords with the same name 
your scene will get incompatible.

Christoph

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