Re: animation

Hi!

On Saturday 20 July 2002 01:29, CARVALHO Luis Passos wrote:
> Hmmm... I think the only thing that was ever in discussion was the data's
> ownership (script or object).
> I think it's more or less settled that it is the object's data.

Object! Definitely!

> > This is where having some form of cache interface comes into place.
> > Seems to make sense to me to have kpov handle it and simply allow
> > scripts to assert it's notion of data that needs to be cached.  More
> > than likely there will be a minimum set of attributes which
> > are required
> > to be cached (perhaps even different requirements per object
> > type).  At
> > any rate, a script should have a fairly good idea of what
> > data needs to
> > be communicated for kpov to represent a static scene.  After all, kpov
> > still has to export the resulting scene to it can be
> > rendered!  Right?!
>
> Theoretically right. How large will this file be then?
> For an animation lasting 60 seconds we need, considering 24 frames per
> second 1440 points in time.
> Several hundred objects in the scene, all with animations, would make the
> scene file quite big.

Yes, I also think this will be too much data.

If there would be a flag like "script needs previous scene" we could at least 
reduce the cache data or the needed calculations to display the scene of a 
certain time.

Andreas
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