What about image size?  If you want to do a large or small render?
What about quality?  If you want to do a fast render, without AA?
What about output?  If you want to change the output file name, location or
type?
All these things are command line options.  To save typing, you are also
able to specify them in INI files.  It just doesn't make sense to "fix" such
things in the POV file, when they need to be more flexible.  Of course,
you -could- just change the settings in the POV file, but why should you
have to edit every POV file you get if you want to change the output name?

Remember what the INI files are, an extension of the command line and, as
such, extremely useful.

...Chambers

"Dave Dunn" <poi### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> "Tony[B]" wrote:
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> > FWIW, I agree with Andy. I never liked the concept of an external .INI
file.
> > I think all those things should be setable from within the .POV file.
>
> Add me to the list. I liked being able to add switches that, for example,
set
> the quality of the scene based on what was being rendered. Adding a
> scene-specific ini file seems to be a step backwards from something so
intuitve
> and powerful.
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