POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : ini_option : Re: ini_option Server Time
2 Sep 2024 16:22:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ini_option  
From: PoD
Date: 7 Feb 2000 17:41:08
Message: <389F4F8A.6F020F83@merlin.net.au>
Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> >   - The type of rendering (size, antialiasing, etc) should specified
> outside
> > the scene, not inside.
> 
> Why?  Because "that's the way it's always been"?  That by itself is not a
> good reason.  (That reason, coupled with "users appreciate backwards
> compatibility and consistency", as Thorsten mentioned, is a pretty good
> reason, however.)
> 
> -Nathan

I've always considered it obvious that the scene file describes the
_scene_ not the image.

Some kind of Allow_Scene_Ini_Options option strikes me as a good idea.

PoD.


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