I am trying to use the sunpos include file in an interface I am building to use
POV-Ray for designing buildings. I want a situation where the user enters one of
a set of predefined locations and times for example: Daylight( West, Afternoon )

The interface will access the current date and time, with all the other
necessary information for sunpos in order to correctly render the scene.

My question is: how can I get the current date and time for POV-Ray via the SDL?

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Actually, it seems a better idea is to allow the user to enter a desired date
and time as part of the settings for the scene.

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Kene schrieb:
> Actually, it seems a better idea is to allow the user to enter a desired date
> and time as part of the settings for the scene.

... especially since you have no other way to get the current time & 
date from SDL anyway, unless you use a patched version (such as MegaPOV 
for instance) ;-)

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clipka wrote:
> Kene schrieb:
> 
>> Actually, it seems a better idea is to allow the user to enter a 
>> desired date
>> and time as part of the settings for the scene.
> 
> 
> ... especially since you have no other way to get the current time & 
> date from SDL anyway, unless you use a patched version (such as MegaPOV 
> for instance) ;-)

I wrote a little C++ program that would write the time and date in to a 
text file. I've tried to use the Pre_Scene_Command or Pre_Frame_Command 
in the ini to run the program then let the pov file read that file. But
I never did get it to work.

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