I've done some animation for the election-day on my little island, using PovRay.

To set-up the project was a little to complex for the ini-files.

It would be a very cool thing, heaving conditional directives within the
ini-files, like:

##########################################################
Antialias=Off
Input_File_Name=election.pov
Initial_Frame=1
Final_Frame=23
Display_Gamma=2.0

Width=1440
Height=115

Declare=FileToImport=2

#switch (FileToImport)
  #case (1)
   Output_File_Name=Canditates-01-a
   Declare=GlobalDivider=20
   Declare=FramesAtTheEnd=250
  #break
  #case (2)
   Output_File_Name=;02 = Canditates-01-b
   Declare=GlobalDivider=25
   Declare=FramesAtTheEnd=250
  #break
 ....
 #end
##########################################################

In this case, I would only need to edit the "Declare=FileToImport=..." entry and
everything else is done automatically.

I had more then 17 different files to import and all with different conditions
ahead...

The result can be watched here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQcsNXEpTRQ

After rendering, I've used Avisynth for the quick-compositing. The rendering
took just a view seconds, it was "almost realtime" ;) but the fiddling with the
inifile took unnecessary long time.

Best rgds,
Holger

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