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  Re: Bug (or feature to design around when animating).  
From: Tom York
Date: 11 Feb 2007 00:45:01
Message: <web.45ceac6718adace67d55e4a40@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> How many objects in the first set of frames? Is it less than the bounding threshold?
> If the answer the second question is YES, then there will be NO bounding at all
> for the entire animation.
> A solution: add 1 or 2 dumy objects, like small sphere with no_image, no_shadow
> and no_reflection or objects placed off field: behind the camera or
> behind/inside some opaque object.
> Others have been hit with that problem in animation with a growing number of
> objects: 0 to 2 objects in the first frame and eventualy 1000s in subsequent frames.

Couldn't the +MB option help here? Can you not set it to +MB5 or less (I
think the default is 25 objects)? No dummy objects would be needed in that
case.

Tom


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