Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg 

>> oook... problem is with
>> a) rand() stream state
>> b) variables used in functions used in expression
>> c) global settings, i.e. noise generator type
> Also, objects, image maps or patterns, anything that uses other forms
> of data files...I'm not going to bother coming up with more.

yes...
 
>> 1. POV will just ignore problem with variables - it will not 'detect'
>> change of pattern - yes then caching will work wrong, but this would
>> be just a beta-test version
> That's not even close to a beta. That's early alpha at best. It just 
> doesn't work in the majority of cases.

ok.
so back to Your's idea to write script.
Is there some script language (in POV itself) 
like if file("hf_1.tga") doesn't exist - run hf_1.pov ?
It woukd be possible if .pov scene would be enabled to run another .pov 
scene. Other possibilites ?



-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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