POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : flying police car WIP : Re: flying police car WIP Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:24:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: flying police car WIP  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 5 May 2013 16:04:07
Message: <op.wwmnc4nkufxv4h@xena>
On Sun, 05 May 2013 18:48:17 +0200, Kenneth <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> This is an intriguing idea! The thing is, I've forgotten if a  
> sphere_sweep
> object is 'evaluated' by POV-Ray at parse time or during the rendering  
> stage. If
> the latter, that might slow things down during my animation (regardless  
> of
> #writing the sphere_sweep to a file beforehand.) And maybe the same  
> situation
> using blobs.
>
> I'll have to try this to see.
>
>

Apparently blobs render faster:
http://news.povray.org/povray.windows/thread/%3Cweb.47841f263bacf7e1748549bc0@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=381969&toff=50

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-


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