Um, Nigel, sir? Did you forget this needs a ID and password to get in?
Or did you realize that when you posted this URL...? ;)


Nigel Stewart wrote:
> 
> There is now a web-page describing "Imp Pov", a povray 3.1
> compilation with a few extra features for network rendering.
> 
> http://www.imp.org/members/tech/rcast/rcast.html
> 
> Binaries for Win32 and Linux are available.
> 
> Features:
> 
>      * Passive render-farm mode "+N" for rendering farming
>        The network rendering mode waits for configuration files in INI
>        format to be placed in the incoming directory. Outputs are placed
>        in the outgoing directory.
>      * TAR file as read-only file-system
>        Packing scene files into a TAR archive allows long filenames, and
>        case sensitive filenames across every platform. It also simplifies
>        scene distribution, and allows modules to be packaged and
>        distributed conveniently.
>      * Automatic scene dependency reporting
>        Pov-ray will report the set of files required to render a scene.
>        Ultimately, this feature will be developed to provide render
>        farmers with the minimal set of files required for a each frame of
>        animation.
>     * Command-line interface
>        No user interface is included for the sake of portability. It
>        should be simple to layer a GUI on top of the network rendering
>        mode, by manipulating the file queues and writing some state
>        information to a file from povray.
>      * Different directory searching policy
>        Currently, pov requires every directory to be included in the
>        library search path in order to find include files. IMP POV
>        implements a 'relative to current file' search, so that files in
>        the same directory as the current one are found first. This means
>        you can include a module using an absolute path: #include
>        "galaxy/galaxy.inc" and files it depends on this will be expected
>        in the galaxy directory.
>        This reduces the amount of library configuration, and also reduces
>        the chances that included filenames will collide. (For example, a
>        local "colors.inc" vs the global "colors.inc")
> 
> 
> --
> Nigel Stewart (nig### [at] eisanetau)  http://www.eisa.net.au/~nigels/
> Postgrad Research Student, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
> All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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