cdbaric nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 27-04-2007 21:00:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> cdbaric <CD Baric> wrote:
>>> It is hard to believe people are creating these beautiful pictures only
>>> using a command line interface.
>>   Why is it hard to believe?

>> --
>>                                                           - Warp

> Simple - when I draw an object, I have a visualization of what the finished
> object should look like. I look at what I have drawn and compare it with
> that visualization.

> I love and use the command line interface for many tasks, including ripping
> DVDs and CDs BUT creating a visual experience without instant visual
> feedback seems to me to be unintuitive - how can it be otherwise.

> Bar


POV-Ray is a renderer, it is NOT a modeler, and, even with the UI of the windows 
version, you don't have any "instant" visual feedback, only an integrated text 
editor. To see the state of your work, you need to start a render.
With the windows version, and I beleive the Mac version (correct me if I'm 
wrong), you get the conveniance of a button to start a render, a drop-list to 
select your resolution, a small "command line" text box to enter various 
parameters that stay until you change them, tabed edition pages.

The applications that offer a visualisation, are mostly mesh based using openGL 
or direct-draw.

-- 
Alain
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If you're ever about to be mugged by a couple of clowns, don't hesitate - go for 
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