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By the way, I should have remembered some previous comments about UberPOV's
#persistent variables from here...
http://news.povray.org/povray.animations/thread/%3Cweb.565084806f515a457a3e03fe0%40news.povray.org%3E/
It's hard to keep all of this stuff in my head, but I'm trying ;-)
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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> > I never realized that a macro's result-- object(FOO)-- was a global variable
> > that remained 'alive' in a scene once the macro was invoked.
>
> It has to be, since macros "spit thing out" to be used outside of the macro.
>
Yes, I do grasp that; I think I probably wasn't being very clear with my
questions. What I meant was, I wonder if a macro can actually 'cache' its
contents for use in a scene (not for animation, but just in a regular static
scene.) An example would be this...
#macro MyMacro()
#ifndef(FOO)
#local FOO = pigment{image_map{png "MY_IMAGE.png"}} // #local, not #declare
#else
#end
pigment{FOO}
#end
#for(i,1,10000)
box{0,1
pigment{MyMacro()}
translate i*x
}
#end
Would this *re-load* the image_map 10,000 times into memory... or would it load
only once and 'instantiate' the image_map 9,999 times, with MUCH less memory
use? I guess I need to do an experiment to find out.
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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Uberpov persistent feature for animation of big scene
Date: 9 Jan 2018 11:54:04
Message: <5a54f3ac$1@news.povray.org>
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Am 09.01.2018 um 03:23 schrieb Kenneth:
> #macro MyMacro()
> #ifndef(FOO)
> #local FOO = pigment{image_map{png "MY_IMAGE.png"}} // #local, not #declare
> #else
> #end
> pigment{FOO}
> #end
>
> #for(i,1,10000)
> box{0,1
> pigment{MyMacro()}
> translate i*x
> }
> #end
>
> Would this *re-load* the image_map 10,000 times into memory... or would it load
> only once and 'instantiate' the image_map 9,999 times, with MUCH less memory
> use? I guess I need to do an experiment to find out.
It would load it 10,000 times; local variables are ditched after every
macro invocation.
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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
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> It would load it 10,000 times; local variables are ditched after every
> macro invocation.
OK, that makes sense now. #Local is always 'local', regardless of the #ifndef
block. Got it. Thanks.
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