Richard Quick wrote:
> 
> I am new to POV-RAY, and what I have seen of the animations, I am
> jumping in with both feet.  But before I do, what am I going to be
> looking at for usage of space?  I have a little 4GB HD with 1/2 gig
> free space left.  Should I wait till I get a second HD, or can I go
> ahead, and hope that I do not run out of space?

  IF you render at 640x480 and output to .tga you could technically render
a 500 frame animation before you swamp your hard drive. Depending on how
complicated your anim is that is a pretty healthy frame amount. Most people
however render in smaller resolutions so you can add to that frame number
quite a bit if you keep the image size down to a reasonable level. You are
definitely on the low side as far as space on your hard drives if you are
just starting out with POV-Ray.


> Also, I have only been on the PC since April 1998, and still consider
> myself a newbie.    I have a Pentium II MMX 266 MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HD,
> 56Kbs U. S. Robotics modem, 32x CD ROM, ATI video card, and a
> SoundBlaster 16 audio card.
> 
> What would be  a good second HD to get for my machine?   Ken, anybody?

 As a long time user of the program and one who always seems to be under
equipped for the job I have two hardware suggestions. Get yourself a nice
new 10 gig drive and upgrade your ram to at least 128 megs. Upgrading your
video card will NOT increase your rendering times so don't bother.
  With this combination you should be Ok until you get the irresistible
urge to get a new 100 mhz buss mother board and a 500+ mhz processor. This
urge will hit you quite suddenly and you should try to mentally prepare
yourself for it :)

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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