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  Re: Request: Option to not render a scene if it has no camera  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 25 Nov 2008 20:34:05
Message: <492ca78d@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>> This results in my image output directory becoming cluttered with blank
>> images making it hard to browse for and view the images I actually want
>> to work with.
> 
>   Put "-f" in your main povray.ini file. Personally I find it completely
> useless to have povray save images for all renders because 99% of them
> would be temporary test renders anyways, and I have no use for the image
> file itself. When I want the image file, it's very easy to write "+fn"
> (which will override the "-f" setting in povray.ini) on the command-line
> options field in winpov or the command line in unix.

For those cases, I usually put a -I switch on the command-line text box,
giving the path to the real scene. Then it renders what I want even if the
focused tab is an .inc.


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