"Randy" <han### [at] sbcglobalnet> wrote in message 
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> (This may belong more in the animation group)
>
> I have the desire to be able to render multiple views of my scene file
> without having to change the camera position and re-run the render several
> times.
>
> Randy
>

Hi Randy,

I use something like that to do the graphics for the documentation of some 
of my macros so I can regenerate the images in 'batch' mode.
I set a variable at the top, either to a fixed value:

#declare ImageNumber = 50;   // 1 to 50 if only generating a single image

or to be equal to the frame number:

/* Using command line options +kfi40 +kff50 
*/
#declare ImageNumber = frame_number;   // used for generating a sequence of 
images


 then I have a series of #if statements containing the stuff that's unique 
for each image:

#if (ImageNumber = 3)
  #declare Image = "SCDefaultNewelTexture";


I define a name for each image just so that I can write out a script file at 
the end that I can use to rename the files to give me meaningful file names:

#if (ImageNumber != 0)
  #if (frame_number = 0) #write(FileID,"REN StairCaseDoc.bmp ",Image,".bmp 
\n")
  #else #write(FileID,"REN StairCaseDoc",ImageNumber,".bmp ",Image,".bmp 
\n")
  #end
#end

Hope this helps,

Regards,
Chris B.

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