On 27/05/2013 8:49 AM, Stephen wrote:
> I changed PovRay's behaviour to close on completion and the whole cycle
> took about 4 seconds for a simple scene.

I am having a problem with this. I can render a scene in PovRay if I 
have created it after I enable POV-Ray 3.7 as the renderer. But if I try 
to render an old scene (I only have one that I made myself) the PovRay 
renders fails.

Hmm!

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     Stephen

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On 27/05/2013 12:21 PM, Stephen wrote:
> I am having a problem with this. I can render a scene in PovRay if I
> have created it after I enable POV-Ray 3.7 as the renderer. But if I try
> to render an old scene (I only have one that I made myself) the PovRay
> renders fails.

FYI
If I export the model as an OBJ then import it into a new scene. It will 
render in Pov.

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     Stephen

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > Pretty! I would love to see a larger version, perhaps with some dispersion :D
>
> I'll see what I can do ;) This version doesn't even use area light photons so I
> could definitely crank it up a bit. Might tighten the view angle too.

Here's a bigger version. I'd forgotten just how slow dispersion can get, so in
the end I gave up waiting - this version uses area-light photons, but no
dispersion :( There are still some slight fuzzy artifacts in the caustics, but
it looks ok in general.

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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> Well it is a bit soon for me to be using PovRay as a renderer. I want to
> be able to use Blender properly first. But you intrigued me.
> I downloaded the latest version of Blender (2.67a)
> In User Preferences > Renderer. Enable POV-Ray 3.7
> Expand the section and in Preferences (at the bottom of the section)
> Set the location of the PovRay exe.
> //..\..\..\..\..\..\Program Files\POV-Ray\v3.7 RC7\bin\pvengine64.exe
>
> Save User settings.
>
> In Blender set PovRay as the render engine and render.
>
> I got that chequerboard pattern screen then PovRay started and the scene
> rendered in PovRay. When I closed Pov the image appeared in Blender.
>
> I actually had pvengine.ini open in the PovRay editor (Windows) and this
> entry changed.
>
> [LastRender]
> SceneFile=QUICKRES
> OutputFile=c:\users\stephen\appdata\local\temp\tmpydyozc.png
> HistogramFile=
> IniOutputFile=
> CurrentDirectory=C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender
> SourceFile=C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\tmpoluh0u.pov
>
> I changed PovRay's behaviour to close on completion and the whole cycle
> took about 4 seconds for a simple scene.

Thanks for that, Stephen! I didn't think to expand the addon entry in user
preferences to find the option. Figured I'd just get the link to the
documentation and "Report a Bug" like usual.

Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> On 27/05/2013 12:21 PM, Stephen wrote:
> > I am having a problem with this. I can render a scene in PovRay if I
> > have created it after I enable POV-Ray 3.7 as the renderer. But if I try
> > to render an old scene (I only have one that I made myself) the PovRay
> > renders fails.
>
> FYI
> If I export the model as an OBJ then import it into a new scene. It will
> render in Pov.

OK, the same thing is happening over here. Gonna have to file a bug report now
:(

Sam

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > > Pretty! I would love to see a larger version, perhaps with some dispersion :D
> >
> > I'll see what I can do ;) This version doesn't even use area light photons so I
> > could definitely crank it up a bit. Might tighten the view angle too.
>
> Here's a bigger version. I'd forgotten just how slow dispersion can get, so in
> the end I gave up waiting - this version uses area-light photons, but no
> dispersion :( There are still some slight fuzzy artifacts in the caustics, but
> it looks ok in general.

Looks good, even without dispersion ;) You going to try mixing them up in a
single container? :D

It would be great if POV-Ray got a render engine overhaul sometime. What I am
specifically thinking of here is if focal blur + dispersion were combined, to be
able to use a low dispersion_samples value that would be multiplied by the
camera's blur_samples value, to save time when rendering both. Same thing with
radiosity: multiply "count" by the camera's focal blur samples. After all, you
can already do this with area_lights, and radiosity to a degree (if all the
objects have a microscopic surface normal).

Sam

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On 27/05/2013 6:40 PM, Samuel Benge wrote:
> OK, the same thing is happening over here. Gonna have to file a bug report now

Good man. Saves me doing the registering thing.
Now that I've set up the render in Pov, I'll keep it and expand on it as 
I gain more proficiency in Blender.

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     Stephen

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"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Looks good, even without dispersion ;) You going to try mixing them up in a
> single container? :D

Hm, could do, but my ubuntu machine's on hiatus suddenly - it occurred to me
that I accidentally installed the 32-bit OS on a 64-bit machine, so I should
probably reinstall before I become too entrenched. I was going to move on to
chimney-felling next, but I might come back to the balls later :)

> It would be great if POV-Ray got a render engine overhaul sometime.
[snip wishlist]

I'd not thought about it that much... it would be nice if there was more control
over dispersion.

Bill

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>> Pretty! I would love to see a larger version, perhaps with some dispersion :D
>>
>> I'll see what I can do ;) This version doesn't even use area light photons so I
>> could definitely crank it up a bit. Might tighten the view angle too.
>
> Here's a bigger version. I'd forgotten just how slow dispersion can get, so in
> the end I gave up waiting - this version uses area-light photons, but no
> dispersion :( There are still some slight fuzzy artifacts in the caustics, but
> it looks ok in general.
>

Nice image, it is a shame that all the things we like to use are so slow 
to render. Still this looks good as it is and great photons.

Sean

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On 05/27/2013 10:22 AM, Stephen wrote:
> FYI
> If I export the model as an OBJ then import it into a new scene. It will
> render in Pov.
>

have you tried saving as blender file ... then render? i've had some 
problems when i import 3ds files, do some cleanup then re-export the 
modified file as 3ds for use with poseray. some minor problems with 
origin cleared up when i did save 1st ... then export

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Hijacking this thread so I've moved my answer to you to a new one.
Continuing Blender-PovRay discussion.

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     Stephen

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