On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:02:06 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>In article <3c8b7a24$1@news.povray.org> , "Anders K." <and### [at] prostard2gcom>
>wrote:
>
>> This seems like a very arbitrary limitation.
>
>If you take a sequence of pictures, do the call the initial picture in the
>sequence the 0th or the 1st picture?

This all depends on whether you're counting frames or elapsed time.
If your frames are based on elapsed time, it makes a great deal of
sense to number the first one zero (i.e., no time has elapsed yet)...

>
>> Being someone who likes
>> zero-based counting, I use Initial_Frame=0 very often, and it has always
>> worked for me. Are you saying that it isn't going to work in the future?
>
>It hasn't been possible in any 3.5 beta and now after five month and several
>thousand downloads of each of the betas the first person notices - so it is
>correct to conclude that this must be the most important undocumented behavior
>in 3.0 and 3.1!?
>
>Not to mention that it was never documented and the documentation strongly
>recommends to leave Initial_Frame at one...
>
>    Thorsten
>
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>e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
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