-Does POV-Ray support animation rendering?

-Does POV-Ray support keyframe, timeline (interpolation) animation rendering
from Blender 3D models?

-Does POV-Ray include equivalent support for Marked Freestyle Line Edges in
Blender 3D?

-If POV-Ray does support those previous from Blender3D, does it support command
line, background animation rendering?

-Given that I can use plugin support to export my animation to different formats
from Blender 3D, what would be the ideal file format for my keyframe, 3D
animation model?

-Can I be given an example of "command line animation rendering via file"
command prompt entry?

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On 5/8/2017 1:09 PM, Zachary1234 wrote:
> -Does POV-Ray support animation rendering?
>

Yes.

> -Does POV-Ray support keyframe, timeline (interpolation) animation rendering
> from Blender 3D models?
>

No PovRay is a renderer and the windows version comes with a text 
editor. That is it. You have to do the hard work yourself. Or use the 
PovRay exporter that comes with Blender.


> -Does POV-Ray include equivalent support for Marked Freestyle Line Edges in
> Blender 3D?
>

No, PovRay uses mathematical primitives. It can handle meshes and 
heightfields But not like Blender.


> -If POV-Ray does support those previous from Blender3D, does it support command
> line, background animation rendering?
>

I can say yes to that. :)

> -Given that I can use plugin support to export my animation to different formats
> from Blender 3D, what would be the ideal file format for my keyframe, 3D
> animation model?
>

To use PovRay. You need to export and render each frame separately. You 
can use Blender to do this.

  scene


> -Can I be given an example of "command line animation rendering via file"
> command prompt entry?
>
>
I don't do that thing, myself. So I can't help there.
There should be examples in the Help and Tutorial files.

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Regards
     Stephen

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On 05/08/2017 08:09 AM, Zachary1234 wrote:
>
> -Can I be given an example of "command line animation rendering via file"
> command prompt entry?
>
>
A set of demo animations is shipped with POV-Ray and can be found in the 
directory <install_location>/scenes/animations. You can find the current 
master development versions on line at:

https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/master/distribution/scenes/animations

If you were in a local directory with copies of the splinefollow 
directory files you could render the animation frames with the commands:

povray splinefollow.pov +kf0.1666 +kff20 +kc declare=fp=0

or

povray splinefollow.ini

Bill P.

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