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

> > Tor Olav Kristensen <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
> >
> >> But some might want to use POV-Ray SDL to write them...
> >
> > Yes. Sometimes ago I needed to write df3 files from SDL, but that's impossible.
> > On the other side, Povray read only df files in binary format. I think that one
> > would want to create df3 files in his macros...
> >
>
> Yep, so let's add binary-file-writing capabilities to POV SDL, like Warp
> said. Not make an ASCII-based df3.

that sounds like a fine idea. my main objection with the binary versuses the
ascii formats was that all the tutirials on the df3 binary format made things
alot more complicated with stuff like big indian and little indian. but im
assuming that if the ability to write binaries would make this trival, at the
very least there would be documentation as it applies to pov as opposed to
general computing

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