Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
Are the files interchangable?

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"Alan Mathews" <ama### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
> Are the files interchangable?

of course!  The SDL is like the C language and the include files are like
cross-platform libraries and povray itself like a good cross-platform C
compiler. :)

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nemesis scripsit::
> "Alan Mathews" <ama### [at] charternet> wrote:
>> Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
>> Are the files interchangable?
> 
> of course!  The SDL is like the C language and the include files are like
> cross-platform libraries and povray itself like a good cross-platform C
> compiler. :)
> 

Well, as long as you take care of any font files used in the scene.
If you used a text object with a font file not available on the
rendering machine, it won't render.
(ttf files are fine on Windows & Linux, just have to locate them
correctly... and the big Arial.ttf with all the unicode stuff is
only available with latest ms-office...)

But, I agree, once the resources (of include and font files) have
been found, no problem!


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Alan Mathews <ama### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Will a windows pov file render on Linux?

  Can you think of any reason why it would not?

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Alan Mathews <ama### [at] charternet> wrote:
> > Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
>
>   Can you think of any reason why it would not?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

No
I was just making sure.I use Chief Architect in Windows because
it exports to a pov file.I want to use a seperate machine to render
to. Is Linux 64bit a good system to render on?
Thanks Alan Mathews

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Alan Mathews spake:

> Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
> Are the files interchangable?

Yes - I usually design in Windows (using moray + Windows pov) and render in
Linux on the same machine. You just need to make sure you change the paths
around (all \ becomes /) and make sure the relative paths still match up
(so that the scene has all its components available).

This is relatively easy to do... for example, to access .ttf files in both
systems, the windows partition is mounted in linux, then

C:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf

becomes

/mnt/win/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

and so forth and so on.

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Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@ wrote:
> 
> C:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
> 
> becomes
> 
> /mnt/win/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> 

Note the former is not supported.  The backslash has a special meaning 
in strings - see the docs for details).  Always using a forward slash 
will work universally.

In general it is a good idea not to use absolute path names in scene 
files but use library_path settings instead.

Christoph

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"Alan Mathews" <ama### [at] charternet> wrote in message
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> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > Alan Mathews <ama### [at] charternet> wrote:
> > > Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
> >
> >   Can you think of any reason why it would not?
> >
> > --
> >                                                           - Warp
>
> No
> I was just making sure.I use Chief Architect in Windows because
> it exports to a pov file.I want to use a seperate machine to render
> to. Is Linux 64bit a good system to render on?
> Thanks Alan Mathews
>

works well for me. just make sure you are using a 64bit build of povray to
utilize all the processor's capabilities.

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