Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:

> >> 4)Realtime preview.
> >
> > As long as POV lacks a GUI editor, this one remains problematic.  OTOH, a button
> > next to the "Render" button that launches a Q5 render, or something like that,
> > could be useful.
> >
> > In fact, along with such a button, the ability to query the current quality
> > level (+Q from the command line) would be useful for scenes.  I already do all
> > kinds of LOD anyway; linking it to the current +Q option would make this
> > feature much more useful for me.
> >
>
> +Q0 is still slow for many scenes, and you can't do things like rotating
> the camera around the scene with a good framerate.

That's why querying the Q level would be good.

I already do things like

#declare LOD_TREES = 3;

for many different items in my scenes, and then use different objects / textures
depending on the setting.

Being able to do something like

#if (SCENE_QUALITY = 3)

would simplify my scenes quite a bit.

....Chambers

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