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28 Jul 2024 20:25:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hey Xander, help  
From: Steven Durham
Date: 25 Jan 2000 10:49:45
Message: <388dc619@news.povray.org>
Thanks guys,

the plugin GUI dll extension did get chopped off somehow I corrected it as
instructed, Viola!!! avi animation by Pov.
Just one more question, I can only get avi output. If I choose bmp or tga
from the dropdown, when I click apply it jumps right back to avi. why is
this?

Steven

Alexander Enzmann <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
news:388D33AB.E5859200@mitre.org...
> Check that the GUI extension value got properly set for POV-Ray.  There
> are a couple of hints in the docs.  There have been a couple of people
> that had that fail.
>
> The animation doesn't rely on POV-Ray's clock.  Each frame is generated
> and rendered automatically by the plugin.  When you are done you either
> have a series of image files or a single AVI file.
>
> Yes, if you have POV-Ray set to render to a display as well as having
> the plugin render to it's own display, you will see the image appear in
> two windows at once (well, up to three if it is going to the Moray
> window as well).
>
> Xander
>
> Steven Durham wrote:
> >
> > I can't get the plugin to render animations with POVRay. It works fine
under
> > polray, but when I set it up for POV(see my reply to a previous posting)
it
> > only renders the first frame. I opened the file exported to pov/scenes
and
> > in a quick scan of it,I could find no clock instructions. Also, when
> > rendering to Pov the polyray render window is still rendering behind the
POV
> > window. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Steven


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