Hi All- is there a way to allow Moray to launch a second instance of POV to
render materials thumbnails and tests without killing the looooong main
rendering that POV is working on?

-Pascal

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i think moray depends on pov having only a single instance and
automatically changes pov's settings according;y.  sorry, no luck there.

Pascal Golay wrote:
> 
> Hi All- is there a way to allow Moray to launch a second instance of POV to
> render materials thumbnails and tests without killing the looooong main
> rendering that POV is working on?
> 
> -Pascal

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ryan constantine wrote:
> 
> i think moray depends on pov having only a single instance and
> automatically changes pov's settings according;y.  sorry, no luck there.
Yeah, well there's something there:
Whenever i try to render the same scene, the chages don't appear on the
render, like pov was still using the same scene file

Is it normal/is there a way to counter that?? 
> Pascal Golay wrote:
> >
> > Hi All- is there a way to allow Moray to launch a second instance of POV to
> > render materials thumbnails and tests without killing the looooong main
> > rendering that POV is working on?
> >
> > -Pascal

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Pascal Golay wrote:
> 
> Hi All- is there a way to allow Moray to launch a second instance of POV to
> render materials thumbnails and tests without killing the looooong main
> rendering that POV is working on?
> 
> -Pascal

There is a way to work around this outside of Moray. You can run more than
one instance of POV-Ray if you go to the options menu in the POV-Ray editor
and uncheck the option for "keep single instance". You could then do your
actual render directly with in POV-Ray itself, then use Moray to start
another render of your new scene development or for such things as rendering
your materials thumbnails. Doing it this way may cause Moray to be sluggish
or even unresponsive at times, and the render times in POV-Ray will surely
suffer too, but if this is what you want to do it is not impossible to do
so.

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> There is a way to work around this outside of Moray. You can run more than
> one instance of POV-Ray if you go to the options menu in the POV-Ray
editor
> and uncheck the option for "keep single instance". You could then do your
> actual render directly with in POV-Ray itself, then use Moray to start
> another render of your new scene development or for such things as
rendering
> your materials thumbnails. Doing it this way may cause Moray to be
sluggish
> or even unresponsive at times, and the render times in POV-Ray will surely
> suffer too, but if this is what you want to do it is not impossible to do
> so.
hmm .. and if you use NT on a dual-processor machine may be the two
instances are distributed ???

would be a nice question ... has someone tried ???

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Well, I did try it on my old dual 300 under NT4 and I can tell you that
sluggish is not the word... Impossible is more like it. It did appear to be
ditributed onto both processors though, in that with one instance running I
had 57% cpu usage and with two megaPovs running it was 100%.

-Pascal


Jan Walzer wrote in message <38e4e3b7$1@news.povray.org>...
>
>> There is a way to work around this outside of Moray. You can run more
than
>> one instance of POV-Ray if you go to the options menu in the POV-Ray
>editor
>> and uncheck the option for "keep single instance". You could then do your
>> actual render directly with in POV-Ray itself, then use Moray to start
>> another render of your new scene development or for such things as
>rendering
>> your materials thumbnails. Doing it this way may cause Moray to be
>sluggish
>> or even unresponsive at times, and the render times in POV-Ray will
surely
>> suffer too, but if this is what you want to do it is not impossible to do
>> so.
>hmm .. and if you use NT on a dual-processor machine may be the two
>instances are distributed ???
>
>would be a nice question ... has someone tried ???
>
>
>

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Pascal Golay <cgo### [at] idtnet> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
38e4ff06@news.povray.org...
> Well, I did try it on my old dual 300 under NT4 and I can tell you that
> sluggish is not the word... Impossible is more like it. It did appear to
be
> ditributed onto both processors though, in that with one instance running
I
> had 57% cpu usage and with two megaPovs running it was 100%.

So is there any alternatice to make pov using more than one processor ???

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Jan Walzer wrote:

> So is there any alternatice to make pov using more than one processor ???

Read up on this subject here -
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/languageVFAQ.html#multiprocessor

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On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 13:54:44 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>Read up on this subject here -
>http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/languageVFAQ.html#multiprocessor

  I knew that section of the FAQ would come in handy <s>.

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Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 13:54:44 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >Read up on this subject here -
> >http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/languageVFAQ.html#multiprocessor
> 
>   I knew that section of the FAQ would come in handy <s>.

It's probably the 4th time I have referred someone to this section since
adding it and sure has saved me a lot of typing :)

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