"Jim Barnes" <jim### [at] linknetcomau> wrote in
news:3f0185ab@news.povray.org: 


> 
> I want to parse a scene file and then output the parsed parts to
> multiple tracers as in the case of animation instead of each frame
> being genned by the parser and then sent to the tracer I would like to
> parse the file and send thirty frames to thirty tracers so i can
> produce thirty frames at once. 
> 

That will not save much time.  You will still need to parse the scene files 
for every frame.  Use the standard POV-Ray with an external animation 
controller.  Here are some:

http://www.imp.org/impfarm/

http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/ani/rendview/

http://www.psico.ch/index.php?page=prs

http://sabix.etdv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/RenderFarm/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/rfarm/


Or a patched version of POV-Ray:

http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net/

Tom

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