Hi All,

We're running POV-Ray off the back of DIALux.  They've modified some of the
lighting engine to take IES files and so forth, as I understand it.

We're having trouble with interrupted renders (being based in Mexico, we
lose power on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis).  The continue option
doesn't show up on the menu.  How do we get POV-ray to run an output file
and how do we then continue interrupted renders?

By the way, we love POV-Ray for what it can do.  We're looking forward to
POV-ray 3.7 or 4.0 - any idea when they'll arrive?

Thanks,

Thomas.

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Try using the +C command-line argument. In the windows version of povray
you can write command-line arguments in the textfield at the top of the
window (at the right of the resolution selection dropdown-menu).

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Try using the +C command-line argument. In the windows version of povray
> you can write command-line arguments in the textfield at the top of the
> window (at the right of the resolution selection dropdown-menu).
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

In the version we're running, this box is greyed out and locked - ideas?

Is this a global fix, or is instance by instance?  Can we activate it once
the POVray file is running, or do we have to do it first?

Thanks,

T.

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Thomas nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/06/14 10:42:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Try using the +C command-line argument. In the windows version of povray
>> you can write command-line arguments in the textfield at the top of the
>> window (at the right of the resolution selection dropdown-menu).
>>
>> --
>>                                                           - Warp
> 
> In the version we're running, this box is greyed out and locked - ideas?
> 
> Is this a global fix, or is instance by instance?  Can we activate it once
> the POVray file is running, or do we have to do it first?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> T.
> 
> 
Normaly, it's grayed out only when a render is under way, and usable at any 
other time. It don't depend if you have a scene loaded or not.
Stop any rendering.
If there is no rendering running, there is something wrong with your 
installation. Try exiting POV-Ray and reinstall with a freshly downloaded 
installer (yours may have been corrupted during the original download)

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you see something in the real 
world and you think, "Hey! How did they get that effect?"

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First OF all you have to know Dialux install two copies of pov-ray, the
original one in directory C:/program files/Pov-ray.../ and the customized
one in C:/program files/Dialux

If you want to run a project created with Dialux you have to copy
pvengine.exe from Dialux directory and replace the same file in
C:/.../pov-ray.../bin

After that you will open every .POV files with customized version, also
re-run a render scene with your settings in the command-line.

You can also create videos, if a black-out stop calculation you have only to
restart from the interrupted frame.

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