Hello,

I have a scene using frame_number to change the geometry by changing the
include file name that contains it. The materials needed use image maps and
are the same through the entire animation. Materials are defined once at
the start of the main POV file.

My question is: During the animation rendering are the image maps from the
materials reallocated for each frame or are they defined only once?

thanks for any info

FlyerX

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"FlyerX" <fly### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> My question is: During the animation rendering are the image maps from the
> materials reallocated for each frame or are they defined only once?

Reset for every render, animation or not. Same as all objects, textures, and
variables in the scene.

I only know of the custom patch of version 3.1 called MegaPOV (up to version
0.6.3 or 0.7), prior to its 1.0 release based on official version 3.5, which
allowed retaining variables and objects in memory between frames. Not sure
if it was ever completely problem-free, nor do I recall whether or not
materials (or image_map) were possible to retain in memory.

You might want to see  http://megapov.inetart.net/manual/old_megapov.html

Bob H.

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