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.

Post a reply to this message