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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