hi,

Sven Littkowski <I### [at] SvenLittkowskiname> wrote:
> In case it doesn't exist yet:
> A switch that prevents POV-Ray to overwrite an existing scene image with
> a new one. Instead, POV-Ray would attach a dash and a number to the
> image name and create that way a new image.  Also checking if that
> particular image number exists already, then simply incrementing the
> highest found image number by one. This way, the various renders of the
> same scene will create over time a series of images, not losing the
> existing ones.

iiuc, you can already do this.

see section 3.2.6 of the docs, the 'Post_*_Command's.

you know your scene's file name and have access to the frame number,
so writing a batch file to do the copy should be trivial.

> This switch would save me (and many others) the additional work of
> having first to rename an existing scene image before rendering the same
> scene again. Great also for comparisons.


regards, jr.

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