"Ross Litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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> Hello all. motivated by a small discussion in p.b.i., i'm on a mission to
> find out how to get the output file name from the currently rendering
scene.
> actually, I guess i need the file name while parsing the scene. i've
scanned
> through the docs and searched on the web view of the newsgroups, but to no
> avail. any help would be appreciated. i basically want to write to a file
> with a similar filename. if the output image is called "my_scene.tga" then
> i'd like to write some text to a file called "my_scene.txt" without having
> to hard code the filenames in the .pov file. just getting the actual
> filename is what i need, the rest i can manage.
>
> hopefully this makes sense. thankyou very much for any hints.

Yes, does. You can do INI commands to use %s and get the name into such a
file. See the doc section 5.2.4  Shell-out to Operating System and the part
immediately following.

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