Dudes and/or Dudettes:

(gosh i hope M$ doesn't send this as poop)

I am having a problem getting POV to run silent, run deep.
I have written an animation controller for my humbleNet that spawns POV-Ray.
On Linux and Windows, i can't get POV to be transparent.

Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on opening a
render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm really working
and
requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0, but can't get it to not
display.

Windows:  I can get POVWin 3.02 to be *pretty* quiet, but i can't get rid of
the
splash panel.  It is annoying to lose focus to where i am when POV starts.
But the
worst part is (not POV's fault) that when the splash closes, focus returns
to some
window other than where i was.  POVDos runs perfectly quiet, but then i'm
limited
to EIGHTDOTTHREE FILENAMES.  TunnelHeightField.gif fails to get parsed.

So, how do i make POV run with no output (except +GAoutput.txt).

tanx

dik

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"Dick Balaska" <dik> wrote:
: Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on opening a
: render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm really working
: and
: requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0, but can't get it to not
: display.

  x-povray -d -i test.pov  worked just fine for me in this sparc. I can't
imagine what's the problem in your version.

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Nieminen Mika wrote in message <36cd684f.0@news.povray.org>...
>"Dick Balaska" <dik> wrote:
>: Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on
opening a
>: render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm really working
>: and
>: requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0, but can't get it to not
>: display.
>
>  x-povray -d -i test.pov  worked just fine for me in this sparc. I can't
>imagine what's the problem in your version.

You still have your DISPLAY variable set.
=======================================================

19 Feb 09:00:21 Running render </usr/local/bin/x-povray -V -P -d
+L/usr/local/lib/povray3/include +GAoutput.txt
tteoac.ini -itteoac.pov -sf21 -ef21>
19 Feb 09:00:21 render: Parent pid = 7322
19 Feb 09:00:21 render: child pid = 7349
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.02.Linux.gcc
  This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team(tm).  See the

[ blah blah blah ]

Creating vista buffer.
Creating light buffers.
Displaying...
DISPLAY variable is not set, and you are not specifying
a display on the command-line with -display.
File init error.

Error opening X display.
19 Feb 09:00:23 sproject: render returned ret=7349 status=256, errno 0
(UNKNOWN)
19 Feb 09:00:23 sproject child returned 1 (UNKNOWN)
19 Feb 09:00:23 sproject: Error running render status=256, errno -1
(UNKNOWN)
=======================================================

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Are you using, explicity or by default, some .ini file?  

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"Dick Balaska" <dik### [at] SeeOrganizationField> writes:

> I am having a problem getting POV to run silent, run deep.
> I have written an animation controller for my humbleNet that spawns POV-Ray.
> On Linux and Windows, i can't get POV to be transparent.
> 
> Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on
> opening a render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm
> really working and requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0,
> but can't get it to not display.

  Strange...  I have a CGI shell script that runs x-povray.  I can
tell you that it works.  As a CGI (that is, when called by Apache), or
as a standalone program (that is, on the Linux console, without any X
server running).

  Try analysing the output of POV-Ray (I mean, the textual part).
Mine gives:

(roland@clodomir) ~/tmp $ ./pov-date.png 
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.02.Linux.gcc
  This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team(tm).  See the
    documentation on how to contact the authors or post a message on
    CompuServe's GO POVRAY Forum.  Also visit http://www.povray.org.
Copyright 1997 POV-Ray Team(tm)
Parsing Options
  Input file: stdin (compatible to version 3.0)
  Remove bounds........On  Split unions........Off
  Library paths: /usr/local/lib/povray3 /usr/local/lib/povray3/include
    /home/roland/perso/pov/scenes /home/roland/perso/pov/include
    /home/roland/perso/pov/include/fontes /home/roland/perso/images
    /usr/local/lib/povray3/include/
Output Options
  Image resolution 234 by 30 (rows 1 to 30, columns 1 to 234).
  Output file: stdout, 24 bpp Targa, 1024 KByte buffer
  Graphic display.....Off
  Mosaic preview......Off
  CPU usage histogram.Off
  Continued trace.....Off  Allow interruption...On  Pause when done......On
  Verbose messages.....On
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 2 
  Light Buffer.........On  Vista Buffer.........On
  Antialiasing........Off
  Radiosity...........Off
Animation Options
  Clock value....   0.000  (Animation off)
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On


Parsing...
[cut]

  Try and see that the "Graphic display.....Off" line is actually "Off".

Roland.
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English speakers call me Rowlannd' Mass,
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Dick Balaska wrote:
> 
> Dudes and/or Dudettes:
> 
> (gosh i hope M$ doesn't send this as poop)
> 
> I am having a problem getting POV to run silent, run deep.
> I have written an animation controller for my humbleNet that spawns POV-Ray.
> On Linux and Windows, i can't get POV to be transparent.
> 
> Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on opening a
> render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm really working
> and
> requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0, but can't get it to not
> display.
> 
> Windows:  I can get POVWin 3.02 to be *pretty* quiet, but i can't get rid of
> the
> splash panel.  It is annoying to lose focus to where i am when POV starts.
> But the
> worst part is (not POV's fault) that when the splash closes, focus returns
> to some
> window other than where i was.  POVDos runs perfectly quiet, but then i'm
> limited
> to EIGHTDOTTHREE FILENAMES.  TunnelHeightField.gif fails to get parsed.
> 
> So, how do i make POV run with no output (except +GAoutput.txt).
> 
> tanx
> 
> dik

The other sure-shot method is to get the Unix source and build with
"make newunix", which produces an executable that isn't capable of
non-ASCII display.

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