Darren New wrote:
> Shay wrote:
> 
>> If you are willing to do this for every frame of an animation, then
>> light_groups will not help.
> 
> 
> The source is macro-generated. I have a batch file that generates 
> world.pov with the lights for a particular set of cameras, renders them, 
> then regenerates with a different set of lights and rerenders, and etc. 
> So, yeah, I do it for every frame. :-) Of course, that means I can't 
> really easily use the file-queuing feature of povray under windows, so I 
> can generate the batch files, but running them keeps povray appearing 
> and disappearing on the screen. Any interfaceless version of povray for 
> windows? Or is there a command-line switch I missed? Right now I just 
> call pvengine.exe /render blah.pov /exit lots of times, and it's mildly 
> annoying, UI-wise, when I'm trying to work. :-)
you could use "start /min /wait pvengine.exe [...]" for your batchfile, 
this way povray would be started minimized, but i don't know if it 
wouldn't get focus anyway...
bye,
	Marc

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