POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
13 Jul 2025 18:47:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 19 Sep 2007 19:12:25
Message: <46f1acd9$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:05:22 +1000, Chris Cason wrote:

> I don't think it is necessary to change object definitions. That's not
> to say there may not be another means to create them programmatically if
> you happen to be generating a scene from an algorithm, but the basic
> definition syntax for objects, cameras, etc, could reasonably stay the
> same.
> 
> As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, SDL is really two
> things: a scene description language and a scripting language. It
> started with the pure SDL and the scripting was added later. Therefore
> it's not unreasonable
>  to suggest that scripting can be changed without changing the core
>  object
> syntax.

No argument from me on this. :-)

Jim


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