PerFnurt wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I'm really new to MegaPOV, and I have some trouble understanding how to get
> the mechism thingie to work as I want it to ;-)
> 
> For example, using the cloth.pov sample, is there a way to generate the
> final image (or an arbitrary frame) without having to render all previous
> images between the first and the last?

As Jaap said you can generate the final image without *rendering* every 
frame but not without simulating the whole time (this is nothing 
specific to MegaPOV, it is inherent to any simulation like this).  So 
you could do something like:

#if (clock_on)
   ...
   (insert the old simulation timing here)
#else
   step_count Frame_Count*Steps
   time_step ...
   ...
#end

where 'Steps' is the old number of steps per frame and Frame_Count the 
number of frames you want to simulate.

Christoph

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