"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > I need an information about Pov-Ray.
> >
> > I wish to made an animation in Pov-Ray and modifing some parameters in
> > real-time passing some value from another application. Is it possible? How
> > could communicate the two programs?
>
> In general POV takes 1 or more files as input and outputs an
> image to a file. On most systems this would be too slow to run in
> real time.
>
> > For example: I want to create a ball that roll left to right when I pass
> > value 1 and that roll right to left wen I pass 0. (The value comes from an
> > application that allow network comunication).
> >
> > Do you have some ideas?
>
> Pre-render all the frames, load them into memory, then "flip" through the
> frames based on if the ball should be rolling left or right.
>
> > Beta version allow te real-time mode. The problem is: can Pov-Ray
> > communicate with other programs? In which way?
>
> In Beta 17 there is a real time feature in testing, however this
> is for rendering multiple views of the same scene, without re-parsing,
> no objects can be moved, just the camera view. The camera is set by
> defining multiple cameras in a scene, the output is passed as a message
> instead of writing a file.
>
> Beta versions of POV will expire, so don't put too much time into it,
> it probably will become more stable and useful before it reaches
> actual release, which may or may not be in 3.7
>
> I'm sure others could tell you more about the Beta features...



Thank you very much

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