I was wondering if anyone has ever tried compiling a version of POV-Ray for
the PocketPC?  Would it be even possible?

I've fooled around a bit with YASRT (Yet Another Set of Ray-Tracing Tools),
but it's in the early beta stages and pretty limited in what it can do right
now.

I might consider grabbing the Microsoft SDK for Pocket PC and compiling the
pov-source, but I don't know if it would be a waste of time to try at this
point.

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In article <3c1e1c33$1@news.povray.org> , "Captain Tylor" 
<fis### [at] hrupennedu> wrote:

> I might consider grabbing the Microsoft SDK for Pocket PC and compiling the
> pov-source, but I don't know if it would be a waste of time to try at this
> point.

I think it depends on your target system resources.  You will need at least
four MB free memory to use POV-Ray for aynthing close to interesting (unless
you are satisfied with rendering a few spheres).

Further, you should make sure the system you target has a FPU - as most of
those systems use the ARM processor core this is not very likely...


    Thorsten


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> I was wondering if anyone has ever tried compiling a version of POV-Ray
for
> the PocketPC?  Would it be even possible?

just to add that yasrt (www.yasrt.org) is a pocket pc raytracer

getting pov ported shouldnt be to much of a problem, the big question being
will the results be worthwile


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Well, I just got my hands on Microsoft Embedded Visual C++, so I'll give it
a whirl.  It might not be useful yet, but since the next-generation devices
are coming out with 64 megs of RAM, it might come in handy farther down the
road.

My current Pocket PC only has 32 megs of RAM.

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Give it a few years. I have a hard time running a 160x80 mpeg video on my
cassiopeia, much less rendering something like that in a mini-pov distro for
pocketpc. Why not just get a cheap old 300mhz laptop? It would work wonders
better.....
"Captain Tylor" <fis### [at] hrupennedu> wrote in message
news:3c1e1c33$1@news.povray.org...
> I was wondering if anyone has ever tried compiling a version of POV-Ray
for
> the PocketPC?  Would it be even possible?
>
> I've fooled around a bit with YASRT (Yet Another Set of Ray-Tracing
Tools),
> but it's in the early beta stages and pretty limited in what it can do
right
> now.
>
> I might consider grabbing the Microsoft SDK for Pocket PC and compiling
the
> pov-source, but I don't know if it would be a waste of time to try at this
> point.
>
>

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I've looked around for a cheap laptop, but couldn't find any with the
specifications to run ZBrush.  But I have the Pocket PC anyway.  But anyway,
I'd give it more like a year and half.  The next-next gen models will
probably have 128 megs of ram and by 2003 they're supposed to start coming
out with 3d acceleration chips (I know Pov-Ray doesn't use 3d aceleration,
it's a different kind of animal that wouldn't benefit from it).

Besides, there's the challenge involved. :)

"Parasonic" <par### [at] parasonicpar> wrote in message
news:3c22ce76@news.povray.org...
> Give it a few years. I have a hard time running a 160x80 mpeg video on my
> cassiopeia, much less rendering something like that in a mini-pov distro
for
> pocketpc. Why not just get a cheap old 300mhz laptop? It would work
wonders
> better.....
> "Captain Tylor" <fis### [at] hrupennedu> wrote in message
> news:3c1e1c33$1@news.povray.org...

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www.yasrt.org is "Yet Another Simple Raytracer". It happens to also be
ported to the Pocket PC. I emailed the maker of YASRT (who is also a big
POV-Ray fan) and asked if he was going to continue work on it. He said yes
and also that he was going to start porting POV-Ray to the Pocket PC, but he
was going to wait until the new version of POV-Ray comes out (3.5)
officially. This is great! I use YASRT at school during class on my Pocket
PC and its faster on a Pocket PC than you might think it would be.
years.

Also, if you have difficulty running 160x80 video on you Casio, I definitely
recommend PocketDIVX at www.projectmayo.com . It can play video on even old
Casios at 24 fps or higher at over 240x180.

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Thanks for the update.  I've been to www.yasrt.org recently and it hasn't
been updated for a while.  I had been worried that it had been abandoned.

"Robotbeat" <chr### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3cf9156f$1@news.povray.org...
> www.yasrt.org is "Yet Another Simple Raytracer". It happens to also be
> ported to the Pocket PC. I emailed the maker of YASRT (who is also a big
> POV-Ray fan) and asked if he was going to continue work on it. He said yes
> and also that he was going to start porting POV-Ray to the Pocket PC, but
he
> was going to wait until the new version of POV-Ray comes out (3.5)
> officially. This is great! I use YASRT at school during class on my Pocket
> PC and its faster on a Pocket PC than you might think it would be.
> years.
>
> Also, if you have difficulty running 160x80 video on you Casio, I
definitely
> recommend PocketDIVX at www.projectmayo.com . It can play video on even
old
> Casios at 24 fps or higher at over 240x180.
>
>

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