Tony[B] wrote:

>> POV is a rendering engine, it's meant to output images not cloth
>> data, not particle system data, only images.
> 
> 
> What about radiosity and photon data? If it can output those, why not cloth?

	Because those are internal rendering values that can have no meaning 
outside of povray. A cloth simulator (or a particle systems simulator) 
can be useful for people using other software. This also means that if 
they are implemented as standalone utilities, they'll still work with 
pov 4.0 even though it'll be a complete rewrite and that the pov-team 
won't have to expend any effort for this (meaning we'll see it sooner 
and there'll be less bugs). OTOH I won't expect pov 4.0 to still be able 
to read photon/radiosity data saved by former versions...

		Jerome
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