Not to forget that Alexander's Animation/Polyray plugin supports keyframing
in the way you describe it directly from inside Moray. Check it out (on
Moray's plugin page).

Johannes.

Ken wrote in message <3716E37E.582B3DBF@pacbell.net>...
>Jason Krah wrote:
>>
>> (I hope this post is ok here.. Ill also post to povray.animations)
>> I have been playing around with Pov/Moray for a while now and
>> was thinking about animataion. I then set out to write a simple
>> program. Im only learning C so I haven managed to work it out
>> (completely) yet.
>>
>> The idea is the basic idea behind keyframing, but using moray..
>> What you do is create your static scene, save as scene1 and export to
>> sc1.pov file.
>> Move the objects around a bit. (dont create anything "new" as such) and
>> save as
>> scene 2 and export to sc2.pov.
>
>I understand your enthusiasm for creating your own keyframing software
>but it might interest you to know that someone beat you to it. It might
>also prove interesting for you just to experiment with it to see how
>someone else went about solving the different operations involved with
>decoding the changed portions of the scenefiles. I believe I read where
>Ken (the author of the utility - not me) will send the source for his
>utility to those who ask for it and you may gain some insight from that
>as well.
>
>Take a look at:
>http://www.televar.com/~ceckak/keymorph/
>
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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