Hold over from the DOS days I suppose. With the Windows versions no
doubt it could be done, probably keeping the platform dependancies at a
minimum I guess is reason why not (like I'd know?).
Well anyway, yes, those two things would be great assets. Scene files
can already be made into *.bak files but this is a short-lived file
itself being overwritten again and again. Think people see the multitude
of excess image files as potential clutter, not to be saved as relics of
past renders of the same file. So as a minimum a backup image file would
be a fine thing at least.
The long file names is long overdue imho also.
As much as this all sounds like more POV-User babble, makes me wonder
why the POV-Team hadn't wanted it this way long before now though.
Obstacles in there somewhere?


Gordon wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cocker wrote in message <36e72310.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have two questions;
> >1)
> >I'm using the windows version of POV, and I find it really annoying that
> POV insists in
> >truncating my filenames during animation output. Does anyone know if it's
> possible to
> >allow support for long filenames?
> 
> On the same topic, I would really like POV to not overwrite the same output
> file name all the time. What would be neat is for it to, say, append a
> letter to the files so you have some history.
> 
> Alternatively, can anyone suggest a way to get this effect. I'm always
> killing samples because I change the file and render, then realise I just
> killed last nights 15 hours render! I then say drat (or words to that
> effect).
> 
> Thanks
> Gordon
> <gbe### [at] birdcameroncomau>
> 
> >2)
> >Apparently, the EXE of version 3.1e will be posted on it's own this time,
> as an optional
> >download. I'm still on 3.1a. Has anything else changed since then that
> would mean me
> >having to download the whole package ( I understood 3.1d and e are just
> bug-fixes )
> >
> >Ta very much
> >
> >---------
> >Andy
> >
> >

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