Christian Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using POV version 3.1g.watcom with the MegaPOV patch.
> I want to call MegaPOV from another program to render
> a specified image. I'm using a command like this:
>   megapov.exe +W200 +H200 +Itest.pov -D -V -P
> 
> Is there a way to use MegaPOV in a pure command-line
> mode (no splash-screen, no application window, no
> rendering window, no stop after image is ready)?
> 

In short: no.

You can run WinPov/WinMegaPov with

megapov /RENDER test.pov /EXIT [additional options]

but this will still start the windows interface.  
You might want to read the previous thread in this group (and it's origin
in povray.unix) where this was discussed more detailed.  

A command line version of several povray versions is available on my site
BTW, but it is slower than the Watcom/MSVC compile: 
http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg.html

Christoph

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hi

Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Christian Martin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
[snip]
> > Is there a way to use MegaPOV in a pure command-line
> > mode (no splash-screen, no application window, no
> > rendering window, no stop after image is ready)?
> 
> In short: no.
> 
[snip]
> 
> A command line version of several povray versions is available on my site
> BTW, but it is slower than the Watcom/MSVC compile:
> http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg.html

you should go and see stuart gibson's website

   http://www.stuartgibson.com/

where you can find a dos version.
works like povdos, and spits out *nothing* except
the images :) (and i mean *nothing*).

gimi

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gimi <gim### [at] psicoch> wrote:
: where you can find a dos version.
: works like povdos, and spits out *nothing* except
: the images :) (and i mean *nothing*).

  Is this completely in accordance with povlegal?

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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hi

Warp wrote:
> 
> gimi <gim### [at] psicoch> wrote:
> : where you can find a dos version.
> : works like povdos, and spits out *nothing* except
> : the images :) (and i mean *nothing*).
> 
>   Is this completely in accordance with povlegal?

i cannot decide that. but as povlegal.doc is included
in the distribution i have, i think so. :)

you would have to ask it's maintainer, stuart gibson
<adm### [at] stuartgibsoncom>, about that, or one of the
povray people maybe?..

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In article <3b6fc337@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Is this completely in accordance with povlegal?

Clearly not!  To quote povlegal, section "Permitted Modification And Custom
Versions" prohibits unmarked unofficial versions:

>>
All executables, documentation, modified files and descriptions of the same
must clearly identify themselves as a modified and unofficial version of
POV-Ray. Any attempt to obscure the fact that the user is running POV-Ray or
to obscure that this is an unofficial version expressly prohibited.
<<

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
:>   Is this completely in accordance with povlegal?

: Clearly not!

  Which means that someone should send a note to the author of that compile
which outputs nothing that he is breaking the POV-Ray usage license by
distributing such compile...

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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In article <3b7183b6@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Which means that someone should send a note to the author of that compile
> which outputs nothing that he is breaking the POV-Ray usage license by
> distributing such compile...

Of course.  It will be taken care of.


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OK guys!!

It only spits out 'nothing' when used in a DOS box in windows! If used full
screen it works just like it should, render screen and everything else!! All
the acknowledgements are there in the 'About' screen when the render
finishes! The functionality is no different to the official DOS Povray 3.1g

So as far as I am concerned it complies with POVLEGAL no problem.

Tell me if I'm wrong......??

Stu.

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3b718ddc@news.povray.org...
> In article <3b7183b6@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>
> >   Which means that someone should send a note to the author of that
compile
> > which outputs nothing that he is breaking the POV-Ray usage license by
> > distributing such compile...
>
> Of course.  It will be taken care of.
>
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
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Stuart Gibson <adm### [at] stuartgibsoncom> wrote:
: It only spits out 'nothing' when used in a DOS box in windows! If used full
: screen it works just like it should, render screen and everything else!!

  I don't understand how it possibly could work differently depending on
the size of the DOS window. A DOS program can't know if it's running
full-screen or in windowed mode (unless it does some weird Windows API calls,
which makes it a non-DOS program then).

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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>   I don't understand how it possibly could work differently depending on
> the size of the DOS window. A DOS program can't know if it's running
> full-screen or in windowed mode (unless it does some weird Windows API calls,
> which makes it a non-DOS program then).

 I think he means DOS under windows, as opposed to DOS mode. Anyhow, as
nobody today runs in pure DOS mode, this allows "bad guys" (if it really
spits out nothing under windows) to bundle it with a self-written
modeller for windows, hiding to the user the fact that pov is the
rendering engine. This is, if I remember well, expressly forbidden in
povlegal.

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