i don't think i made myself clear.  i just want to save objects as includes
for organizational purposes.  my computer is fast enough that having all
that information on the screen at once isn't a problem.  it's just that in
regular povray, i would hand code an object, save it as an .inc file and
write a separate .pov scene file with camera and lights with a #include
reference to the .inc file.  that's all i want to do, but i want to do it in
moray.  the thing pascal mentioned, does the object in the include need to
be positioned already since it can't be manipulated within moray?

ryan constantine wrote:

> here's the situation, i'm creating a complex model (over 200 primitives
> so far) and i would like to save the individual parts as .inc files
> instead of .pov files.  of course, i have already been saving those
> parts as objects instead of scenes within moray, but how can i get moray
> to #include a previously saved object instead of adding it to the
> scene?  does merge object automatically add it to the scene?  is there
> another way to add an object to a scene?  if it's in the docs, point the
> way.
>
> the main reason i want to have the .inc files is for distribution.  some
> of the parts are so complex that nobody will want to mess with them
> anyway and putting them in the main scene file gets really messy!  plus,
> i only named major components so everything minor is cylinder136,
> cube078 etc.
>
> also, is there a way to take advantage of povray's programming elements
> within moray or will i have to do that by hand after model creation?
> thanks,
> ryan constantine

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