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  Re: Reading values from a file?  
From: phibes
Date: 27 Sep 1998 18:09:33
Message: <360EA981.37951F86@mad.scientist.com>
Thank you!

Rainer.

Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> Hi Rainer!
> 
> First: This is the wrong group to post your question. The "programming"
> stands for "programming the POV-Ray source code" not "programming POV scene
> scripts".
> 
> Second: Get the new POV-Ray 3.1. It has file commands.
> 
> Greetings,
> Johannes.
> 
> phibes wrote in message <360E1C52.59DD9C0D@mad.scientist.com>...
> >Hello!
> >
> >I want to generate some animated sequences where celestial bodies move
> >around each other. Since it would be much work to code all the necessary
> >calculations within POV I'd prefer to read the positions (translations
> >in <x,y,z>) from a file previously calculated with a powerful
> >ephemeris-calculator. Is there a possibility to open a file and within
> >each new frame read in a new set of coordinate-values, etc. from an
> >ASCII-file instead of calculating all needed values within POV?
> >
> >Rainer.


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