I like how he knows to ask for Ken, kinda cute <smirk> huh...?
Such sage advice as usual too.  I for one am bent on making only smaller
frame sizes and committing most animations to small Mpeg files and removing
the rendered images immediately.  It never takes more than 50 megabytes for
me to do one (at a time), it's not exactly a universal thing because any
resolutions and number of frames can be done by anyone based on personal
preference.
Some programs to create the final animation can also be used to add to it
indefinately so there really is no need to have huge amounts of space, just
enough for the end result and room to render the new frames, plus some more.
Calculate out what your program of choice takes to create a certain
length/resolution movie and go from there.
But I don't think you'll need the HD anytime soon, especially if you
compress archiveable files. Upgrade that memory (oops wait for good prices)
and CPU if anything.

Bob

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Richard Quick wrote:
> >
> > I am new to POV-RAY, and what I have seen of the animations, I am
> > jumping in with both feet.  But before I do, what am I going to be
> > looking at for usage of space?  I have a little 4GB HD with 1/2 gig
> > free space left.  Should I wait till I get a second HD, or can I go
> > ahead, and hope that I do not run out of space?
>
>   IF you render at 640x480 and output to .tga you could technically render
> a 500 frame animation before you swamp your hard drive. Depending on how
> complicated your anim is that is a pretty healthy frame amount. Most
people
> however render in smaller resolutions so you can add to that frame number
> quite a bit if you keep the image size down to a reasonable level. You are
> definitely on the low side as far as space on your hard drives if you are
> just starting out with POV-Ray.
>
>
> > Also, I have only been on the PC since April 1998, and still consider
> > myself a newbie.    I have a Pentium II MMX 266 MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HD,
> > 56Kbs U. S. Robotics modem, 32x CD ROM, ATI video card, and a
> > SoundBlaster 16 audio card.
> >
> > What would be  a good second HD to get for my machine?   Ken, anybody?
>
>  As a long time user of the program and one who always seems to be under
> equipped for the job I have two hardware suggestions. Get yourself a nice
> new 10 gig drive and upgrade your ram to at least 128 megs. Upgrading your
> video card will NOT increase your rendering times so don't bother.
>   With this combination you should be Ok until you get the irresistible
> urge to get a new 100 mhz buss mother board and a 500+ mhz processor. This
> urge will hit you quite suddenly and you should try to mentally prepare
> yourself for it :)
>
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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