Huh! I was sure that I was using a sort of cave-man's approach, something
a bit obtuse and unnecessary, by altering POVRAY.INI each time.  I thought
I saw an example years ago where someone was creating a separate INI file
for each animation, and so thought I was not using the standard practice.

Is this "secondary INI file" algorithm in the docs?  I suspect not?

Bob Hughes wrote:

> Batch file is the only method that comes to mind for me, to set the
> povray.ini to the one you need. This is no good though since it
> requires a change yourself as well anyway. The lack of INI keywords in
> POV or INC files (or other way around) is a well known limitation, for
> those that know about it already. Writing out to a povray.ini from the
> POV file, no, this wouldn't go right from within a scene parsing.
> There's my "no help", except I would think just selecting a secondary
> INI manually having all the overriding choices in each would be okay
> for those not absent-minded (like me... unlike me...whatever).
>
> Bob
>
> > Spock said:
> >  I would separate the generation from the
> > rendering by using two completely different systems
> > and leave your ini file set up for rendering only.
> >
> > Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
> > news:37beb57a@news.povray.org...
> > > I know how to animate using the POVRAY.INI file.  The problem is
> that I
> > > have one file that I want to ONLY RUN ONCE!!!!! as it generates my
> INC
> > > of positions for my animation.  Then I have a file that I want to
> run
> > > several times as it ticks through the frames.
> > >
> > > Twice this morning, I have forgotten to edit my POVRAY.INI file
> back to
> > > make pov only run more than one frame.  Thus, after a long
> computation,
> > > it rewrites the whole thing over from scratch!
> > >
> > > Q: Is there someway within the file to set up the number of
> frames?  Do
> > > I have to edit POVRAY.INI each time?
> > >
> > > The docs again on this issue seem to be preaching to the coders.
> >:-p
> > > I see  phrases that I'm used to editing in my POVRAY.INI file, but
> no
> > > indication of where to type or use the phrases.
> > >
> >
> >

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