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1 Jun 2024 18:13:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Setting animation parameters in file  
From: David
Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:11:24
Message: <B70342FC.5BFB%mccabesoftware@yahoo.com>
Yes, I think that 'print' will render a file. Just look at the "POV Batch
Render Example" script that comes with POV-Ray.

May I ask what this program is? Is it publicly avalible?
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David McCabe
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http://homepage.mac.com/davidmccabe/
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> The program I'm working on is an extension of a 2D program I've made, where
> I did all the rendering in the program itself. When I decided to try some 3D
> stuff I started making a raytracer and made a simple little thing. But when
> I saw how simple it was to generate a POV file and how much better it
> rendered I'm setting it up so I do all the modeling in my program then
> render in POV. In my program I have a menu item "Auto POV" (command-A) which
> creates my scene file and automatically opens it in POV. Then I press
> command-R to render. Go back to my program, change some stuff then
> command-A, command-R. I'd like to just have a button I can click that will
> create the scene open it and render.
> 
> David, (a previous poster) says there's an applescript command 'print' that
> with cause a render, but I dont see that in POV's applescript dictionary (I
> dont see anything in its dictionary). Maybe thats for MegaPOV, I need to
> look into Mega, sounds like it does alot more.
> 
>> Josh English
>> eng### [at] spiritonecom
>> 
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> -laz
>


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