POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : Render HD format : Re: Render HD format Server Time
1 Jul 2024 03:15:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render HD format  
From: scott
Date: 6 Sep 2006 04:51:39
Message: <44fe8c1b@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] spamcoom> wrote:
>>>  How would you override the default pixel aspect ratio if so needed?
>
>> By setting the horizontal FOV manually inside the camera block.
>
>  No, I think it's a bad idea to force someone to modify the scene file
> in order to render with non-square pixels.
>
>  In some cases this may even be very unfeasible, such as when some
> program has created some thousands of individual pov files to be
> rendered (and form an animation). It would be very laborious to edit
> all of them so that one could render with non-square pixels.
>  But even if it's just one file, I still think it's not a good idea.

Well have the command line/ini option as well then to overide.  That way, if 
someone wants the "image aspect ratio" to be an important part of their 
scene, they can set it in the camera block.  If not, they just leave it out.


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