Thanks very much for the answer. However I think this is to complicated for
the scene I have created and I guess it would not save that much time.

However, in the meantime I have found another method to save a LOT of time:
I organized the animation into segments (rooms) and only add the rooms to
the current animation frame which are within range based on the current
camera position.

The rooms contain a set of macros and objects stored in variables defined
in a include file.

Regards,
Icetoaster


"Roman Reiner" <lim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> You have to use the #write command in a way where it writes POV-Ray SDL into
> the file. If your wooden trunks are made using cylinders you have to use
> something like
>
> #write(file, "cylinder { ", P1, ", ", P2, ", ", Rad, " texture { /*some
> texture definitions here*/ } transform { /*some transformations here*/
> }}")
>
> where P1, P2 and Rad are the variables that contain the appropriate data.
> this happens to be very unreadable but you can always check the outputted
> file for correctness (and you get errors when something is wrong ;))
>
> Then what you do is including the previously generated file with the
> #include command and the cylinders are added to the scene without needing
> the time to calculate their positions/orientations.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Regards Roman

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