POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.scene-files : Star catalogue : Re: Star catalogue Server Time
4 Feb 2026 11:48:57 EST (-0500)
  Re: Star catalogue  
From: Maetes
Date: 3 Feb 2026 08:05:00
Message: <web.6981f1aa38a84fef2a4bec4330225ff5@news.povray.org>
"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> one should be able to do this using an ini file, ie have a script executing a
> scene or frame specific query and write the result(s) to a POV-Ray-style CSV
> file, which would be available in the scene/frame for reading.
>
> <wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Shell_Command_Options>


I also have a similar workaround.
A PHP script that converts an SQL database into an array.
But it is a detour that is limited in flexibility.

Nevertheless the reference to the shell commands is interesting, I didn't know
them before. I'll take a look, maybe I can use my PHP script a little better
with it.

Thanks,
m


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