A little change I would like to see in Pov-Ray.  I mostly render long
animations that take 2-3 minutes per frame.  PovRay displays the line being
rendered on the title bar and status bar.  If it could detect that an
animation of more than about 100 frames, it could display the frame number
being rendered in one or both of those bars.  Maybe add an option to
customize what is displayed there.  I use debug in my scene description to
send that information to the bottom of the message window, but the verbose
messages soon scroll mine above another window.

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"Terrainer" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> animation of more than about 100 frames, it could display the frame number
> being rendered in one or both of those bars.  Maybe add an option to
> customize what is displayed there.

I hadn't read your suggestion until just now. I think the next version 
(3.7), which is still being beta-tested, will show a frame number at the 
top-right corner of the program window along with a small progress bar for 
each frame. However, animation isn't yet implemented in it so I'm not 
exactly sure how it will actually work in the 3.7.

Version 3.6 (also 3.5) already displays a frame number in the message window 
and status bar, so I'm not sure why you had to resort to using a #debug line 
to show it. Unless, of course, you are still using an early version...?

Perhaps you are saying that when rendering takes a long time that the frame 
number disappears from the status bar...?

I don't know if any of it will ever be user-configurable, except it just 
seems unlikely to happen.

Bob Hughes

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