Dam, that is not the answer I wanted to hear :)! Currently each node does
parse the scene before rendering it.
Thanks for the answer!

-James

"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3de44c0b@news.povray.org>, "James Orr" <no### [at] ocom> wrote:
>
> > So what I need is a way to parse once (by the master node) and render
from
> > the pre-parsed file.
> >     A) Has any one created a way to extract/read pre-parsed data?
> >     B) Know how to do it with no or about 2 days of coding?
>
> It is not possible. Or rather, there are too many dynamic structures, it
> would be a huge amount of work to write code to serialize and
> reconstruct all of them, especially since they were never designed to
> allow this. There is no "pre-parse" stage, most of the scene is created
> as the file is parsed, except for things like radiosity and photons
> which are computed immediately after parsing. The best solution for
> anything based on POV is to have each node parse the scene.
>
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