I'd encourage you to do this.  There is a real need for this kind of
functionality.

Also, please ignore the nay-sayers.  Every time this subject comes up, a
number of POV participants jump on the head of the suggestor and flog the
suggestor mercilessly.  Ignore them and do what you think is right.

Jim
http://www.kressworks.com/


"David C" <dav### [at] satnet> wrote in message news:3a632dad@news.povray.org...
> I am wondering about adding an OpenGL preview for animations. I have three
> questions.
>
> - Would it be legal to distribute since OpenGL would be doing the
> rendering and povray would only be doing the parsing?
> - Is it being done already?
> - Is it somthing that the povray comunity would be interested in using?
> (besides me)
>
> I am thinking of just using it for very fast test renders, using quick
> colors instead of real textures and simple lights so you can see how the
> objects look and how the camera moves. You could then tweak it very
> finely for animations since the edit/render/view cycle would be shorter.

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