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16 Apr 2024 13:01:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Object naming when they go into the POV Ray Editor  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Jan 2016 09:35:00
Message: <web.56a6317a1a69b2aad6fa18f0@news.povray.org>
"Swivler" <nic### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> ive been trying to figure out how the POV Ray names the objects being rendered
> by the software. I have a complex scene with multiple objects, when they are
> gathered by the Editor, they are named like "Mesh1" "Mesh2" is there a way to
> have these "meshes" have my actual names for the objects.
>
> I am using the POV Ray for Demo 3D export.

This matter is outside POV-Ray's sphere of influence, and would instead have to
be addressed in the Demo 3D export to POV-Ray.

The .pov files (and possibly any .inc files) are generated by Demo 3D, and
POV-Ray only reads them as input. The only thing written by POV-Ray are image
files.


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