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23 Apr 2024 08:49:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: megapov command line options  
From: Luigi Fonti
Date: 19 Jan 2009 05:50:00
Message: <web.49745a297e39446316fff8b30@news.povray.org>
"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
> "Luigi Fonti" <lui### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht
> news:web.49735fcc8d35511516fff8b30@news.povray.org...
> >I need a command line version ov povray on Windows, similar to Linux
> >version.
> > So I dowloaded megapov, but I have some problems:
> >
> > 1) The help file is unreadable.
> >
> > 2) I don't know how to configure the command line version (megapov.exe).
> >   I can run it , but it only generates a small 100x100 pixel image file
> >   with .tga extension. How can I change resolution and file format ?
> >   I tried to put in the bin directory a povray.ini or a megapov.ini file,
> >   but they seem to be ignored, because nothing changes.
> > Thank you
> > Luigi Fonti
> >
> >
>
> Megapov files have to be loaded into the same folders as pov-ray 3.6 for
> Windows. WinZip can do that automatically for you. It introduces a number of
> additional possibility not found in 3.6, but otherwise works in exactly the
> same way as 3.6.

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried but nothing changes.
megapov.exe executes, but it does not find colors.inc if not present in the /bin
directory, it ignores all the settings in the povray.ini file, it only produces
a small 100x100 .tga image file.


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