Try animation.  You don't have to rename the file, you just save.  I 
frequently use this approach when composing, even stills.

"Josh" <s### [at] acom> wrote in message news:42cc04d2@news.povray.org...
> I'm trying out a number of media renders. In this process I'm iterating 
> round a loop of...
>
> tinker with the settings
> render
> think
> tinker with the settings
> render
> think

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"Josh" <s### [at] acom> wrote:
> Thanks for your input guys, but it looks like I'm going to have to write
> something myself.  I think I'll call it...  "Tinker".

Can you make it available when you finish? I'm tired of saving as
sceneXX.pov :P

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brandon wrote:
 > Can you make it available when you finish? I'm tired of saving as
 > sceneXX.pov :P

What OS are you using? It's a one-line shell script under Unix that you 
could either invoke from a terminal or click on the desktop. I could 
give you something for Windows the same way almost as easily. (Except 
that the Windows shell isn't quite as sophisticated and the "date" 
command is too user-friendly there. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     The samba was clearly inspired
     by the margarita.

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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:47:22 -0400, Tom Galvin wrote:

> ingo wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe subversion is the tool you need:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/
>> 
> 
> A subversion/cvs Gui Extension would be da bomb!

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
Adds version control stuff to windows explorer.
After installing this at work where I have to use windows :(
I couldn't work without it.

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"Greg M. Johnson" <gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:42cf1ec6@news.povray.org...
> Try animation.  You don't have to rename the file, you just save.  I
> frequently use this approach when composing, even stills.
>
> "Josh" <s### [at] acom> wrote in message news:42cc04d2@news.povray.org...
> > I'm trying out a number of media renders. In this process I'm iterating
> > round a loop of...
> >
> > tinker with the settings
> > render
> > think
> > tinker with the settings
> > render
> > think
>
>

That doesn't help get the source file back to the state you had on the Nth
render though, does it? It just keeps a variety of stills lying around.

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:12:18 -0400, "Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet>
wrote:

>That doesn't help get the source file back to the state you had on the Nth
>render though, does it? It just keeps a variety of stills lying around.
>
I think it is a good technique. I write a debug file with the clock
and the variables so I can zoom in on the values I want. Also
"Subset_Start_Frame" and "Subset_End_Frame" or "clock" are useful as
well. If you really want you can put the variables in the image.  

Regards
        Stephen

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> Can you make it available when you finish? I'm tired of saving as
> sceneXX.pov :P

Of course!  Havn't been able to spend too much time on it yet as I've been 
moving house.

I've got an edit window, with Systax Highlighting.  It saves the versions of 
the POV File ok.

I stopped on a problem.  Maybe one of you guys can give me a pointer.

I can get POV to render the image but it keeps opening the applications 
window.  Is there a command line switch that stops it opening the POV 
application window?

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It's moving on.  Now exits POV OK and copies the file the source file and 
rendered image to a seperate folder.  I've also got a viewing window in 
place.  All I need to do now is a Browseing interface that allows you to 
scroll through all of the images in a folder.

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All I've got to do now is get it built....

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V1 of Tinker is now over in P.B.U!

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