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Yes, this is what I meant by the "secondary ini". The batch file way
that might work out best would be to run it as a preparse through the
ini file (See Shell-out to Operating System in the DOC
[Pre_Scene_Command or Pre_Frame_Command] and check for the already
done file. "exists.exe" is probably there in your POV-Ray folder and
you could use that I suppose to do the checking.
Of course I'm only here due to the interest in your pov script flock,
I don't have any of this file checking done here myself ;)
Bob
Spock <spo### [at] home com> wrote in message
news:37beee2e@news.povray.org...
> Not sure if we are all talking about the same thing here,
> but I normally have a separate ini file for each animation
> (of course they all look similar but not the same) and I
> just run the ini file instead of the pov file to produce the
> animation. If I had a setup stage I would create a new
> ini file with different information and run that instead.
>
> Here is the ini file from my latest bubble animation which
> I call (not too surprisingly) "Bubbles11.ini":
>
> Antialias=on
> ;Quality=0
> Input_File_Name=Bubbles11.pov
> Initial_Frame=1
> Final_Frame=120
> Initial_Clock=0
> Final_Clock=1
> Width=1152
> Height=864
> ;Subset_Start_Frame=16
> ;Subset_End_Frame=120
> Cyclic_Animation=on
> Pause_when_Done=off
>
> I would still like to play with your flocking algorithm
> to see what variations on a theme I can come up with
> but I will likely re-write it in Java (mostly by way of
> learning what it does :-)
>
> Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
> news:37bee886@news.povray.org...
> > 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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