this is the first time I login in the comunity
thank you very much,Christoph
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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> bil### [at] 21cncom wrote:
> > I want to render a bunch of pov files from the command line under linux
> > enviorment to make a animation.attached below is my command:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > povray +I/home/jwlee/workFolder/dstPov/*.pov
> > +O/home/jwlee/workFolder/dstPng/*.png  +FT +W160 +H200
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > but it is reported,Possible Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Could
> > not find file '/home/jwlee/workFolder/dstPov/*.pov',
> > so what is the correct syntax?how to render?
>
> 1) wrong group
> 2) this won't work even if POV-Ray supported wildcard arguments (*.png
> do not exist).
> 3) the way to do this is with a loop:
>
> for FILE in *.pov ; do
>    FILE_BASE=`basename $FILE .pov`
>    povray -i$FILE -o$FILE_BASE.png
> done
>
> Christoph
>
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