From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Multiple POV-Ray instances possible on Mac?
Date: 3 Nov 2006 09:21:56
Message: <454b5084$1@news.povray.org>
FurBall wrote:
> Is it possible to run multiple instances of POV-Ray on a Mac?> I haven't been able to find a setting for this.
Mac GUI applications cannot be run in multiple instances, that is a Windos
thing helping users to work around applications that cannot perform certain
tasks in parallel (the way POV-Ray for Windows uses it, as you can that way
have multiple renders running that way), or applications that are so
unstable you don't want them to run as a single instance (the way Internet
Explorer needs that feature ;-) ). You can make copies of POV-Ray and run
each of those on Macs if you want to have multiple parallel renders running.
Thorsten
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> FurBall wrote:> > Is it possible to run multiple instances of POV-Ray on a Mac?> > I haven't been able to find a setting for this.>> Mac GUI applications cannot be run in multiple instances, that is a Windos> thing helping users to work around applications that cannot perform certain> tasks in parallel (the way POV-Ray for Windows uses it, as you can that way> have multiple renders running that way), or applications that are so> unstable you don't want them to run as a single instance (the way Internet> Explorer needs that feature ;-) ). You can make copies of POV-Ray and run> each of those on Macs if you want to have multiple parallel renders running.>> Thorsten
Thanks for your advice!
I would never have tried that, but it works!
Thanks again!!
I've been pondering the same question myself, and have just found this thread-
the suggested solution does the job nicely!
Most grateful for the advice, as it looks as though it'll cut the rendering
time for a 3D project quite significantly.
Just doing some timing tests now- looking forward to seeing what the results
will be.
de> wrote: