I did a little povray programming in Windows a few years ago and I thought I
would re-visit it. I am now running slackware Linux.
I successfully compiled and installed povray and I am am able to render
images. I edit the file using Kedit and run povray from the command line.
One thing I am finding irritating is that I can see the image being
rendered but as soon as the image is rendered the window closes and the
only way to view the image is to open the saved file with a graphics
program.
Another oddity was when I changed povray.conf this had
; Width of image in pixels. Accepts integer values.
;
Width = 320
;
;
; Height of image in pixels. Accepts integer values.
;
Height = 240
When I changed this to 800 and 800 I has a distorted lengthened image. So I
have chaned it to 640 480 and the image looks Ok but I am puzzled that
width and length cannot be varied independently.
TIA
Alan
arubin wrote:
> One thing I am finding irritating is that I can see the image being> rendered but as soon as the image is rendered the window closes and the> only way to view the image is to open the saved file with a graphics> program.
Try this option in your povrayrc config file:
Pause_When_Done=true
This will keep the display window open even when the render has finished
Joerg
arubin <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Thanks. Does that mean that the settings in povray.ini are overridden?
There's no ini setting for aspect ratio. Nothing is overridden anywhere.
--
- Warp
Don't understand this. Changing the width and height values in povray.ini
does appear to change the ratio of the image.
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> arubin <nomail@nomail> wrote:> > Thanks. Does that mean that the settings in povray.ini are overridden?>> There's no ini setting for aspect ratio. Nothing is overridden anywhere.>> --> - Warp
From: Marc Schimmler
Subject: Re: Keeping rendered image window.
Date: 3 Jun 2007 14:56:40
Message: <46630ee8$1@news.povray.org>
The .ini just tells the renderer how many pixels to render.
The aspect ratio tells the programm what aspect ratios the "pixels" have.
They are independent from each other.
So changing the height and width doesn't change the aspect ratio ...
that all
arubin schrieb:
> Don't understand this. Changing the width and height values in povray.ini> does appear to change the ratio of the image.> > > Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:>> arubin <nomail@nomail> wrote:>>> Thanks. Does that mean that the settings in povray.ini are overridden?>> There's no ini setting for aspect ratio. Nothing is overridden anywhere.>>>> -->> - Warp> > > >
arubin <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Don't understand this. Changing the width and height values in povray.ini> does appear to change the ratio of the image.
But they don't affect the aspect ratio of the camera.
--
- Warp
From: Larry Hudson
Subject: Re: Keeping rendered image window.
Date: 3 Jun 2007 18:45:27
Message: <46634487$1@news.povray.org>
Joerg wrote:
> arubin wrote:> >> One thing I am finding irritating is that I can see the image being>> rendered but as soon as the image is rendered the window closes and the>> only way to view the image is to open the saved file with a graphics>> program.> > > Try this option in your povrayrc config file:> Pause_When_Done=true> > This will keep the display window open even when the render has finished> > Joerg
Also the +P command-line option will do it.
-=- Larry -=-
PS. FWIW, I frequently use a bash script I wrote. It's not
particularly versatile, but it's convenient when only a small set of
"standard" options are adequate. I use +P as one of these standards.
It also has a fixed set of common sizes that are selected with a single
number.
povray