A group at my school is using Moray on Windows 2000 to make some animations
in POV.  We would like to be able to render them on our Linux cluster,
using Debian Linux, OpenMosix and POVRAY 3.5c.  What is the best way to do
this?  What plugins, formats, methods, etc, are recomended for this
process.  Any help would be appreciated, either in followup posts to USENET
or personal email.  Thanks.

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m2@m wrote:
> Any help would be appreciated, either in followup posts to USENET
> or personal email.  Thanks.

This isn't usenet.

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Tim Cook wrote:

> m2@m wrote:
>> Any help would be appreciated, either in followup posts to USENET
>> or personal email.  Thanks.
> 
> This isn't usenet.

Well, sorry about that.  I'm sorry it upset you enough to waste your time
posting that one sentence in reply.  Anyway, please accept this change:

Any help would be appreciated, either in folowup posts to this newsgroup, or
personal email.  Thanks.

The people using Moray are finding it to be a very nice program, very simple
to use.  We are just getting stuck in the methods of rendering the
animations on a Linux cluster.  So, if anyone could recomend the best way
to do this, please let me know.

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m2@m wrote:
> A group at my school is using Moray on Windows 2000 to make some animations
> in POV.  We would like to be able to render them on our Linux cluster,
> using Debian Linux, OpenMosix and POVRAY 3.5c.  What is the best way to do
> this?  What plugins, formats, methods, etc, are recomended for this
> process.  Any help would be appreciated, either in followup posts to USENET
> or personal email.  Thanks.
> 

Moray is not supposed to be used to render animations on Clusters. For a 
long time Moray was a WINDOWS modeller for still frames. Only in recent 
time Moray got animation support and this support is quite lowlevel. If 
you try to render an animation on a cluster base, you could use moray to 
  create the scene basics, but then you have to add the animation 
features by hand.

Have a look at

http://povray.org/documentation/view/96/

there you can find documentation about povrays build-in animation 
features. After that start worrying about the cluster renders.

Short Answer: You can't do it with moray.

Greets
Arne Kleinophorst

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Hello,

you find the needed povray files in the Povscn folder from your scene.
If you create a scene sample.mdl in moray you will find a sample.pov and a
sample.inc
copy the files to your Linux and render it with povray.

How do you render with more then one povray should you find in the help from
it.

"m2@m" <pat### [at] yahoocom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Tim Cook wrote:
>
> > m2@m wrote:
> >> Any help would be appreciated, either in followup posts to USENET
> >> or personal email.  Thanks.
> >
> > This isn't usenet.
>
> Well, sorry about that.  I'm sorry it upset you enough to waste your time
> posting that one sentence in reply.  Anyway, please accept this change:
>
> Any help would be appreciated, either in folowup posts to this newsgroup,
or
> personal email.  Thanks.
>
> The people using Moray are finding it to be a very nice program, very
simple
> to use.  We are just getting stuck in the methods of rendering the
> animations on a Linux cluster.  So, if anyone could recomend the best way
> to do this, please let me know.
>
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Arne Kleinophorst wrote:

> 
> Moray is not supposed to be used to render animations on Clusters. For a
> long time Moray was a WINDOWS modeller for still frames. Only in recent
> time Moray got animation support and this support is quite lowlevel. If
> you try to render an animation on a cluster base, you could use moray to
>   create the scene basics, but then you have to add the animation
> features by hand.
> 
> Short Answer: You can't do it with moray.

I was hoping there would be a way to export the .pov file/s with moray, copy
them onto the cluster, and render them that way.  I will pass this
information along to the folks working on POV projects in Moray, and see
what they think.  Thanks for your help.

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Hi m2@m, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> I was hoping there would be a way to export the .pov file/s with moray, copy
> them onto the cluster, and render them that way.  I will pass this
> information along to the folks working on POV projects in Moray, and see
> what they think.  Thanks for your help.
Yeah, at the moment it's not really possible.... It is on my list of
improvements for the animation plugin. I want to export each frame to
it's own folder. I know this will potentially create a lot of data,
but will be easiest and fastest to implement and easiest to distribute
on a cluster, too :-)

So for the moment, you'll need to single step through the animation
and export each frame, copy it away, go to the next step.... I know,
not really a viable solution....

Sorry I couldn't give you a nicer answer.

Regards,

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

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