"Mike Wiering" <mwi### [at] cskunnl> wrote in message
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> Just wondering... is there normal a way to view an animation in PovRay?
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> Last time I wrote a simple Delphi program to display all the rendered
> BMP bitmaps but I don't have it here.

Probably need to look into the "renderer" subfolder to see the examples for
compiling the frames.  DTA is specified in the tgaflc.ini (also pngflc.ini and
others there too) although 24 bit color FLT type files could also be done if
/b24 were added to the command.
Far as viewing it goes you would need to call DFV, the viewer counterpart of
DTA.
My memory is hazy on the actual workings of this but I think you should be able
to get something figured out.  The file outputs would not be desirable due to
sizes compared to mpeg and avi but perhaps a encoder for those types could be
used instead.
I just render out the frames and encode them into mpeg later on, not often is
the case where I am around at the moment of completion of rendering so I seldom
think about the need to have a viewer ready to go.  The Windows (not sure about
others) version has a Tools menu for creating ways to do the same thing
manually (well, in a way it's manual) in which you could start the encoding and
then do the viewing.  Batch file method for example.

Bob

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