POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : ini_option : Re: ini_option Server Time
2 Sep 2024 10:14:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ini_option  
From: ingo
Date: 6 Feb 2000 08:56:37
Message: <8ED297E86seed7@204.213.191.228>
Nieminen Juha wrote:

>ingo <ing### [at] homenl> wrote:


>  I don't know the reason, but I can imagine a couple of them:
>  - Security.

With the shell-out options not included, I don't see any problem here.

>  - The type of rendering (size, antialiasing, etc) should specified
>  outside the scene, not inside.
>  Just imagine the annoyance of a scene with "-w1280 -h1024 +a0.0 +qr"
>  when you just want to render a quick preview of it. 

That little annoyance, I allready have without the ini_options. Switching from 
one scene to another and then wonder why it takes so long to render. Argh, 
forgot to change the commandline options (windows pov). 
That's why I prefer the in file ini_option, especialy with files that use the 
new radiosity setting or a non 4:3 aspect ratio. No more changing commanline 
options and forgetting them or editing (scene specific) ini files.

>  It would also make trouble to a possible software which automatically
>  >  renders a set of scenes with certain settings (for thumbnails, for
>  example). 

Agree, didn't think of that.


Ingo

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