"Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote:
> "Chris {AKA Burnout}" <chr### [at] probarcjbnet> wrote in message
> news:web.40b2a70533660eaf3f488c230@news.povray.org...
> > I need a way to ouput the things I am rendering to Png, JPG, GIf, ETC
> files
> > that are readbale by web browsers.  I have gone over the Help File and
> have
> > not been able to find a way to get it to output to these files.  I am
> using
> > AC3D to do the aactual modeling work then sending the .pov file that
> > creates through pov-ray.  When I send it through pov-ray i get 0 errors.
> I
> > see the rendered ersion appear on screen and his has left me desperate
> > enough that for the literally 1000's of images me and some friends are
> > building i have begun to take screenshots of the rendering and use PAINT
> to
> > cut out the peice i want.  This is incredibly time ineffiecient.
> >
> > I would like someone to p[lease give me the exact peice of code i need to
> > put in the commandline [all of it] to get the result in JPG or PNG format.
> >
> > And exaple file name is : bi_leg_001.[EXT]
> >
> > Please Help
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
> there is no need to take a screenshot. povray can write the image to disk. I
> think it does this by default. however the output format is platform
> dependent. there is much detail in the povray documentation on command line
> options, output options, etc... my typical command line to invoke povray is
> to produce a 640x480 png named my_output.png is:
>
>  povray +Imy_povfile.pov +Omy_output.png +FN +W640 +H480 +P
>
> povray won't output directly to jpg. it can output png, however they are not
> compressed much. you would still want to use a program like paintshop pro,
> or something for postprocessing and compression or conversion.
>
> http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/128/

Thank yuo forthe help.

Idid read te help file, but was not getting a workable reult.

I am very new to 3d and have only been working on it for rughly 3 days ; i
am equally new with commandline functions.

Thanks again,

Chris

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