POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Batch/command-line render in Windows: Re: Batch/command-line render in Windows

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From: James Holsenback
Date: 15 Mar 2013 15:54:43
Message: <51437c83$1@news.povray.org>

On 03/15/2013 03:03 PM, Timwi wrote:
> On 15/03/2013 18:59, James Holsenback wrote:
>> On 03/15/2013 01:19 PM, Timwi wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, the Windows version of POV-ray comes only with a
>>> GUI.
>>>
>>> What do I need to do to get a command-line-compatible renderer?
>>
>> I don't use windows version so maybe this isn't relevant:
>>
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Windows_Section_3#Special_Command-Line_Options
>>
>>
>> and doing google search for: batch/command line render AND POV-Ray AND
>> Windows
>>
>> I found this:
>>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2207472/povray-for-windows-using-the-command-line-to-render-several-pov-files
>>
>
> Well, neither of those turn the GUI off. All of them open a POV-ray
> editor window, do the render (visibly!) and then exit.
>
> This way, rendering a hundred images requires me to either run 100 GUI
> instances, or run them one after the other. In both cases, my computer
> is completely unusable for quite some time while windows keep popping up.
>

>
> Timwi
>
well what does /RENDER do when using -D

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