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There is now a web-page describing "Imp Pov", a povray 3.1
compilation with a few extra features for network rendering.
http://www.imp.org/members/tech/rcast/rcast.html
Binaries for Win32 and Linux are available.
Features:
* Passive render-farm mode "+N" for rendering farming
The network rendering mode waits for configuration files in INI
format to be placed in the incoming directory. Outputs are placed
in the outgoing directory.
* TAR file as read-only file-system
Packing scene files into a TAR archive allows long filenames, and
case sensitive filenames across every platform. It also simplifies
scene distribution, and allows modules to be packaged and
distributed conveniently.
* Automatic scene dependency reporting
Pov-ray will report the set of files required to render a scene.
Ultimately, this feature will be developed to provide render
farmers with the minimal set of files required for a each frame of
animation.
* Command-line interface
No user interface is included for the sake of portability. It
should be simple to layer a GUI on top of the network rendering
mode, by manipulating the file queues and writing some state
information to a file from povray.
* Different directory searching policy
Currently, pov requires every directory to be included in the
library search path in order to find include files. IMP POV
implements a 'relative to current file' search, so that files in
the same directory as the current one are found first. This means
you can include a module using an absolute path: #include
"galaxy/galaxy.inc" and files it depends on this will be expected
in the galaxy directory.
This reduces the amount of library configuration, and also reduces
the chances that included filenames will collide. (For example, a
local "colors.inc" vs the global "colors.inc")
--
Nigel Stewart (nig### [at] eisa netau) http://www.eisa.net.au/~nigels/
Postgrad Research Student, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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