Gordon wrote in message <36e73818.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>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.
>


1) use a "post render" command (not sure how this works, but I think I've
heard about it.  Is it for animation only or can it be applied to any
render) to immediatly rename the file.

2) look at my "cheap mirror" concept code, which is designed to
automatically back up a file immediatly after it's been saved.  Full text
found at http://www.dlugosz.com/Magazine/Cheap_Mirror.html .

3) use #system to rewrite the .ini file with a new output name in it.  I
think that's in one of the common patches.

4) use a make file or batch file of some kind to generate the scenes instead
of running POV directly.  Include enough logic there to do what you need.

5) source code is available...

Just some ideas.  That's not a specific problem for me, but sometimes, when
trying out variations, I'd use this feature to automatically generate
different files without having to edit the name or rename the result each
time.

--John

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