"zhiwu (david) fang" wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Every time POV-Ray reads an external file, it starts from the first
> record.
> So what I did was to read in N*clock*#IFF for current  "clock",  and
> skip
> first N*(clock*#IFF -1). The approach is very inefficient if the data
> file
> is big. I was wondering if anybody has better idea. Thanks.

One obvious approach is to split the data into several small files.  

In megapov you can also use 'persistence of variables' function to avoid
newly reading the file for every frame.

Christoph

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