search this newsgroup for messages from lutz.  he told me how to add a
comment to a pov or inc file so moray won't overwrite parts of it.  it's
late, otherwise i would look it up for you.

Pascal Golay wrote:
> 
> Lutz Kretzschmar wrote in message ...
> >Hi Pascal Golay, you recently wrote in moray.win:
> >
> >> Hi All- I'd love to be able to 'export selected' (render menu) and have
> only
> >> the selected object, or light or camera update in the corresponding POV
> >> files.
> >Why? Does the export take so long?
> >
> >If you're wanting to render parts of the scene only, use the "Export"
> >checkbox on top-level objects to stop them from being exported when
> >you render.
> 
> Yes, thanks, that's what I do when I want to render the parts of the scene.
> But for example, if I make changes to a light in Moray, and want to export
> just that updated light to the POV file it would make things much easier
> because I would not overwrite objects that were edited in the POV file. The
> thing I'm after is keeping a POV file intact but updating certain parts of
> it taking advantage of the Moray GUI. It works well with the Material editor
> because I can copy and paste from the text window on the lower right. If
> there were a similar for objects, cameras, lights, etc that would be great
> and work just  like an export selected function.
> 
> As it is, I save the the POV file that Moray exports right away under a new
> name and find the changes exported to the original POV file and copy and
> paste to the renamed pov file, if you see what I mean.
> 
> -Pascal

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