Ken wrote in message <37EC0231.FE241C79@pacbell.net>...
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>Eitan Tal wrote:
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>> how many objects povray can support in one scene?
>>
>> I am making a whole city made out of cards (playing cards) - bridges,
>> seas, towers and so on. and I am getting worried when I see 800+ objects
>> and growing...
>>
>> if 800 is for simple 8 floored house, what would happen about 20 floored
>> tower and a golden bridge 2 and the land itself? that would be
>> 8,000,000+ objects
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>Pov can handle it if you have enough memory on your system. I have had
>over 1,500,000 objects in one scene before and Pov had no problems
>with it.


From a quick look at the source code, the limit at the moment appears to be
2,147,483,648 objects, however, this may just be a limitation in the
bounding box code.

Mark

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