A few extra notes to the pov-render driver program:

1. The program is "straight" C++ with no GUI; it compiles on Unix/Linux, MacOSX
and MS-Windows with std C/C++ libraries (or cygwin/DOS). The actual povray
command location is a #define in the code.

2. Macro #multithreaded is normally not used; each renderer task runs a single
thread.

3. pov-render can be run from make, shell/batch scripts, or a scripting language
like python or Smalltalk.

4. Partial batches can easily be restarted by editing the frame_num file (and/or
Makefile) and running make again.

5. The default in/out files are Default.pov and Default 0001.png (#define in the
code). These are changed either by compiling a version for each scene, or using
the -i and -o cmd-line options in the Makefile.

Enjoy! (I currently have it running on 30 or so cores here at UCSB -- since
October.)

stp


"Stephen Pope" <stephen [at] HeavenEverywhere [dot] com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to share a useful utility I developed for running povray on a set of
> scripts in parallel on multi-core servers. It's a simple C++ program (*nix &
> MacOSX) that can be run in parallel from makefiles to render successive frames
> of a scene with many threads of povray.
>
> The source code is at:
>     http://FASTLabInc.com/pov-render.cpp
>
> Here's the header of the source.
>
 [ ...stuff deleted ]
>
> Compile this program like, (in Makefile),
>  # target to compile renderer
>  re:
>   g++ -o pov-render pov-render.cpp  # add -lpthread on Linux
>
> -----

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