On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:07:42 -0500, "Johnny Smith"
<joh### [at] homecom> wrote:

>
>    I'm using an image AS a heightfield in several different places within a
>scene.
>Each time I use it..I must read it in...each time I do..it requires more and
>more
>memory...  Any way to read ONCE...and then assign something to it?
>I guess the equivalent would be a pointer C/C++

Try declaring it and then reusing it. Meshes work this way but whether
this holds for HFs I can't say right now. Do a test and see.

As a side note, if using pre-declared HFs indeed makes copies of them,
would it be too hard to make POV do it the mesh way?


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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