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Can I fetch system time anyhow in Windows version of POV-Ray? I have a
clock in my scene and I'd like it to show the start of rendering but I
have to do it manually now :)
Severi S.
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"Severi Salminen" <sev### [at] NOT_THISsiba fi> wrote in message
news:3ff8aff4@news.povray.org...
> Can I fetch system time anyhow in Windows version of POV-Ray? I have a
> clock in my scene and I'd like it to show the start of rendering but I
> have to do it manually now :)
I had posted a file here at the povray newsgroups years ago... found it:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/14604/
If you haven't been to the web-based newsgroups yet you'll need to set it up
first before going in.
--
Bob H.
http://www.3digitaleyes.com
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I saw (I don't remember where) that this will be available in future versions of
POV-Ray.
Reading system clock would be also useful in sunpos.inc (that returns the
position of the sun, for a given date, time, and location on earth). It would be
useful to use actual time rather than changing parameters on each render
(briefly, I have the same problem as you).
news:3ff8aff4@news.povray.org...
> Can I fetch system time anyhow in Windows version of POV-Ray? I have a
> clock in my scene and I'd like it to show the start of rendering but I
> have to do it manually now :)
>
> Severi S.
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Wasn't it Nicolas Alvarez who wrote:
>I saw (I don't remember where) that this will be available in future versions of
>POV-Ray.
>
>Reading system clock would be also useful in sunpos.inc (that returns the
>position of the sun, for a given date, time, and location on earth). It would be
>useful to use actual time rather than changing parameters on each render
>(briefly, I have the same problem as you).
The date() facility is available in the unofficial MegaPOV. This returns
various components of the date and time as a string. If you need to
perform arithmetic on the date/time information, then you'll need to
convert the individual components to floats, something like this:
#version unofficial megapov 1.0; // Needed for date()
#include "strings.inc" // Needed for Parse_String
#declare Hours = date("%H"); // Get time component strings
#declare Mins = date("%M");
#declare Secs = date("%S");
#declare H = Parse_String(Hours); // Convert strings to floats
#declare M = Parse_String(Mins);
#declare S = Parse_String(Secs);
--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure
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