POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Persisting Pigments and Functions : Re: Persisting Pigments and Functions Server Time
1 Jun 2024 19:33:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Persisting Pigments and Functions  
From: Reactor
Date: 26 Dec 2008 16:40:00
Message: <web.49554e56ae452bc2c308a83b0@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Rob Richards <ari### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:
> > can anyone suggest how I could load the function just once at the
> > beginning of the animation and use it in each frame ?
>
> With an unpatched version of POV it will be outright impossible.


Quite right.

I hope this is something that can be addressed in POV 4 - persistent variables
and persistent objects/textures/functions that do not have to be reparsed, but
official POV cannot do this.

-Reactor


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