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  Re: Inverse Kinematics, etc....  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 24 Feb 1999 09:36:11
Message: <qqmu2wb3m3o.fsf@goldach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
The Crazy Mule <smi### [at] paradisenetnz> writes:

> Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> Putting IK into a macro, and a great many other things, are currently
> inefficient in POVRay w/ animations as for each you need to recalculate
> everything from the start of the animation.  Does anyone know of a patch 
> (or is someone interested in making one) where you can have global 
> variables, that hold their value from frame to frame?

How about writing them to a file with the new #read and #write directives?
There is also a new clock_delta constant. In my opinion, this should be
all that you need. (No, I don't have the time to try to write such macros.)

Thomas


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