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> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > Looking up and remembering the +KXYZ  switches, and retyping 3 to 4 of them
> > by hand for EVERY TEST RENDER is just so incredibly user-unfriendly.
>
>   I don't know what weird version of WinPOV you have, but at least mine
> remembers the contents of the command-line field between renders.
>
>   And besides, what does it help to write them in an ini file? You'll have
> to re-edit the ini file every time you want to change the settings anyways
> (which is a lot more work than editing the text field at the top of the
> editor).

Well, you can write an INI file with the information you need for that scene AND
write in the command-line text field other settings, including filenames of
other INI files and options that overwrite those on the ini files.


>
>   And thirdly, putting those scene-specific setting in the main povray.ini
> file is just wrong.
>   In povray.ini you put the settings you want to be default for *all* scenes,
> not just the current one.

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