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KIO-POV is a KDE IO-Slave that provides an interface to POV-Ray.
For those who do not know about KDE - KIO-Slaves are the mechanism KDE
programs use to access files. Using network KIO-Slaves you can for
example directly edit a file on an ftp server just like you do with a
local file. Same for accessing a file in a zip archive. KIO-POV does
the same for POV-Ray and rendering of scenes, for example opening:
pov:/usr/local/share/povray-3.6/scenes/advanced/biscuit.pov?render
will render that scene and return the PNG image. Other options allow
you to view the render log, scene file information and information about
the POV-Ray configuration. MegaPOV is supported as well. A caching
mechanism is implemented so accessing the same render twice will not
render the scene again.
To build KIO-POV you need the development files of KDE (any relatively
new KDE version should work). If you install KDE via your distribution
package management this means you need the -devel packages, if you build
KDE from source you don't need anything.
Source package and a screenshot of the scene info mode can be found on:
http://www.imagico.de/kiopov/
Feedback if it works and is useful would be great.
Christoph
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POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
Last updated 03 May. 2005 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______
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