When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray auto
exit after it finishes? I worte a samll batch file to convert LDraw DAT
files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render these files.
In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it continues with the
next file. This is really annoying and defeats the reason I created the
batch file in the first place: to allow for unattended conversion and
rendering of a large number of files. I looked in the documentaion and
found nothing which is very surprising since POV-Ray has some of the best
documentation I've seen. Any help would be appreciated.
-BTF
"BillTheFish" <ano### [at] anoncom> wrote in news:40788aa2$1@news.povray.org:
> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray> auto exit after it finishes?
/EXIT
Also you may want to use /NR so that it does not load other files from your
last session.
I am assuming you are using the windows version.
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ano### [at] anoncom news:40788aa2$1@news.povray.org> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray> auto exit after it finishes? I worte a samll batch file to convert> LDraw DAT files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render> these files. In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it> continues with the next file.
By the way, can POV be runned in some silent mode (in Windows version) -
say - it will started minimized to system tray for example?
This would be quite usefull for remote-rendering on windows machines.
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"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com> wrote in
news:Xns94C84E5DAA1BBraf256com@203.29.75.35:
> > By the way, can POV be runned in some silent mode (in Windows version) - > say - it will started minimized to system tray for example? > This would be quite usefull for remote-rendering on windows machines.>
Nope. You could use Christoph Hormann's povcyg instead.
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povcyg/
With Firedaemon, you can run it as a service too.
http://www.firedaemon.com/
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If you are using the windows version you could also
try to set the on completion action for render to exit.
(menu:Render/On Completion.../Exit POV-Ray for windows)
That is how I did it before figuring out how to use /exit ;).
Andrel
BillTheFish wrote:
> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray auto> exit after it finishes? I worte a samll batch file to convert LDraw DAT> files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render these files. > In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it continues with the> next file. This is really annoying and defeats the reason I created the> batch file in the first place: to allow for unattended conversion and> rendering of a large number of files. I looked in the documentaion and> found nothing which is very surprising since POV-Ray has some of the best> documentation I've seen. Any help would be appreciated.> > -BTF
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