One thing about layers: Currently you can have an object assigned to
more than one layer (when you merge MDLs you can end up with a lot of
objects assigned to a lot of layers). How would you manage the
exporting of objects to POV in that case?

Stefan

On Tue, 7 May 2002 02:10:52 -0700, "Thomas Lake"
<tla### [at] REMOVE-THISshawca> wrote:

>I mentioned in my previous post that I had gone to using layers instead of
>visibility settings to hide objects. Well along the same lines it would be
>very helpful if you could not only hide all objects on a layer, which speeds
>up display in moray, but also set whether all objects in that layer are
>exported or not, which would speed up Pov-Ray. This makes sense because you
>are usually placing objects that have some kind of logical connection with
>each other on the same layer and so it would make sense to want to not
>export that particular group of objects. For example I put very complex
>objects like messy USO's on their own layer. This makes it very easy to
>switch them off to speed up display in Moray, it would be similarly helpful
>if I could switch them off in Pov-Ray, that is not export them, as these
>same objects have a high rendering/time penalty.

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