Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> >
> > I was doing a simple #if - #else - #end loop and trying to trigger an update
> > once every "hour".
> > #if ( Time1 = ceil ( Time1 ) )
> >
>
> Using such a loop would only work for a *very* long parse operation as
> it can only be evaluated during that time. When rendering or editing
> your scene, the loop is never used.
>
>
> Alain

Well, the parse and render phases are something I need to better understand,
because I long to do cool stuff with functions and macros, and I've seen that
asked plenty of times.  Lots of reading and experiments for me.

I used the loop in my render, and it seemed to work fine.

  #if ( Time1 = ceil ( Time1 ) )
   #declare A = A + B;
   #declare B = B + 2;
   text { ttf "arial.ttf" str (B, 3, 0) 0.1, 0 translate <Time1-2,
Level1*Y_Factor+2, -0.4> pigment {color Yellow}}
   #debug concat ("Time1 = ", str (Time1, 3, 1))
   #debug "\n"
   #debug concat ("A = ", str (A, 3, 1))
   #debug "\n"
  #else
  #end // end if

once I got the #if comparator right, it worked just like I expected it to.

#if ( Time1 / Step = int (Time1/Step)  DID NOT work.
Go figure.

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