POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Layers and Exporting : Re: Layers and Exporting Server Time
1 Jul 2024 04:41:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Layers and Exporting  
From: Thomas Lake
Date: 8 May 2002 04:29:15
Message: <3cd8e1db$1@news.povray.org>
> Hi Thomas Lake, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> > ... but also set whether all objects in that layer are
> > exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray.
> The reason why this was not implemented from the start, is the same
> reason why only top-level objects can be excluded from the export:
> this can cause Moray to export a POV file that cannot be parsed and
> I'm not sure I want to have to deal with the support issues that
> arise. For example if the layer you want to not export has a object in
> it that is referenced, POV-Ray will not be able to resolve the
> reference.
> Also, this may create incorrect CSG objects... if some objects in a
> CSG are exported and some not.

Ahh yes I can see that being a problem. No problem I just put all objects I
want to control exporting into one group.


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