Warp wrote:
>   However, that's where the advantages end. The disadvantage is, however,
> that it would limit the usability of the language *during rendering* even
> more than the current SDL (which at least has user-defined functions which
> can be evaluated during render-time).

I don't see why this sort of thing can't be implemented via callbacks or 
objects (we are using C++, so why not take advantage of it?).

Maybe I can say it more clearly this way: We could use some sort of 
event-driven architecture where the rendering engine fires off events to 
the script interpreter and gets instructions that way.

I would expect it would be possible to do something like this in a way 
that's almost invisible to the scripting language itself.

OTOH, I would expect a performance penalty for something like this, but 
I would also expect it to be fairly minor. Correct me if I'm wrong.

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom wtr### [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when you spend more time 
"tweaking" a texture than modelling the rest of the scene.
     -- Twyst

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