In article <3C8B528A.915FBB09@topsurf.com> , John VanSickle 
<van### [at] topsurfcom>  wrote:

> The original file has Inital_Frame=0 and the replacement INI file has
> Initial_Frame=1.
>
> Also, when the original .INI has Final_Frame=-1, the replacement keeps
> getting written with Final_Frame=1.

Well, why are you surprised about this?  A frame number can only be positive.
Not positive frame number were never supported.  In fact, prior to 3.5 POV-Ray
would not check if you specified valid input.  Setting Final_Frame=-1 would
actually turn the animation off, and specifying frame numbers below -1 caused
various problems and errors along the way and was never supported but no error
was reported.  Now, in POV-Ray 3.5 all negative Final_Frame values turn the
animation off.  Effectively this is done by changing it to Final_Frame=1,
which means there is only one frame and consequently no animation - the result
of Final_Frame=-1 and Final_Frame=1 is the same.

    Thorsten

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