On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 02:56:07 +0200, "Ahmet Oktar"
<ahm### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

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>>   Adding more scripting support is ok, not *replacing* anything!
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>do you say shaders will be programmable like renderman shaders??
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Yep I say this... :) And I don't like extending the script support...
I'd like to have a more terse script as scripting (for me) only
increases parse time, memory allocation and file size (you know that
in real projects renderman scripts grow BIG). A complex
scene-description language is good if U want to do scenes by scripts,
but it seems to me that povray has not thinked at all that it would be
MUCH more useful to develop an interface between a renderer and a
modelling program than between a renderer and the user... That's why I
suggest another feature now: full support of compiled scripts too...
compiled scripts are generated easier by export plugins than script,
they are faster, require less memory and no parsing. It would be a
really good idea to make a compiled script library too, something that
can be used by the povray core rendering system and by export plugins
too, so it would be much easier to do such plugins.

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