Hi,

When I open Moray, then open pov-ray using moray, it opens povray but says
cannot open povray.please open manually or something like that *BUT* when i
open pov-ray then open moray from there using the GUI extension, it works


Also how do you use the anim plugin in conjunction with povray.  Is it
possible or am i dreaming?  I only know how to use it inside moray.  That
may be the only way possible.  I'm gonna stop speakin now coz i gotta go to
slee.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Marc

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> Also how do you use the anim plugin in conjunction with povray.  Is it
> possible or am i dreaming?  I only know how to use it inside moray.  That
> may be the only way possible.  I'm gonna stop speakin now coz i gotta go to
> slee.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

You can't get the anim plugin to talk directly to POV without using 
Moray.  That's because AFAIK, the animplugin takes each frame from Moray, 
exports and renders using POV, and then overwrites the previous frame 
.pov file with the new frame.

The short answer is, you can't use the anim plugin in conjunction with 
POV without having Moray in the middle/background.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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Hi marc ferguson, you recently wrote in moray.win:
> When I open Moray, then open pov-ray using moray, it opens povray but says
> cannot open povray.please open manually or something like that *BUT* when i
> open pov-ray then open moray from there using the GUI extension, it works
> perfect first time.  
How are you starting POV-Ray? With F9? How long is POV-Ray taking to
start up? Moray waits (around) 7 seconds for POV-Ray to start up and
if it isn't up by that time, assumes that POV-Ray could not be started
and gives the message you quoted. What version of POV-Ray are you
using? Do you have to click away any of POV-Rays screen? 

You can start POV-Ray and Moray independently of each other. You don't
need to start the one from the other. As soon as both are running,
they connect.

Regards,

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Hello,

Jamie Davison wrote:

[...]
> You can't get the anim plugin to talk directly to POV without using
> Moray.  That's because AFAIK, the animplugin takes each frame from Moray,
> exports and renders using POV, and then overwrites the previous frame
> .pov file with the new frame.

But it would be a nice to feature to export an animation as a pov/inc
files, because I have slow PC with Moray and faster linux machine with
megapov.

matthias

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Moray waits (around) 7 seconds for POV-Ray to start up and
> if it isn't up by that time, assumes that POV-Ray could not be started
> and gives the message you quoted.
Aha that must be the problem.  My PC is about three centuries out of date so
it takes longer than 7 seconds to start.

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>[...]
> You can't get the anim plugin to talk directly to POV without using
> Moray.  That's because AFAIK, the animplugin takes each frame from Moray,
> exports and renders using POV, and then overwrites the previous frame
> .pov file with the new frame.
>
> The short answer is, you can't use the anim plugin in conjunction with
> POV without having Moray in the middle/background.

You took the question wrong.  Maybe i didnt explain it properly.  I want to
use the plugin IN MORAY to create an animation to be rendered IN POV instead
of just going to Render|Animation.  You see instead of using polyray inside
moray i want to export to povray.

Is this possible?????

Marc

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Hi marc ferguson, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> use the plugin IN MORAY to create an animation to be rendered IN POV instead
> of just going to Render|Animation.  You see instead of using polyray inside
> moray i want to export to povray.
Render|Animation renders the animation with the active renderer that
you set in Render|Options (not Render|Render Options !). The first
listbox has an entry for POV-Ray if you select that, the plugin will
make POV-Ray render the animation. Note that this will not export the
entire animation as one huge POV file or as many small POV files. The
rendering is done a frame at a time.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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"marc ferguson" <mar### [at] ferguson123freeservecouk> wrote in message
news:3b61e760@news.povray.org...
> > Moray waits (around) 7 seconds for POV-Ray to start up and
> > if it isn't up by that time, assumes that POV-Ray could not be started
> > and gives the message you quoted.
>
> Aha that must be the problem.  My PC is about three centuries out of date
so
> it takes longer than 7 seconds to start.

New feature idea: User-defined timeout.  :-)

-Ian

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