Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to finish,
when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open another
instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for windows could
render several images at once? perhaps this requires changes on the render
engine level, but then also other platforms would benefit.

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nlewis wrote:
> 
> Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to finish,
> when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open another
> instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for windows could
> render several images at once? perhaps this requires changes on the render
> engine level, but then also other platforms would benefit.

What would be the benefit (apart from if one render crashes Povray, the
other one will be finished too ;-).

It would not require a core code change i think, but it could be quite a
lot of work to build it into the Povray GUI.

On the other hand starting several instances of Povray is no problem at
all.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
: On the other hand starting several instances of Povray is no problem at
: all.  

  That's the most obvious answer to the original question... :)

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You can do that. Simply start a new instance of POV while the other one is
rendering. (If you can't do it, uncheck *keep single instance* in the
options menu).

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"nlewis" <noa### [at] writemecom> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to finish,
> when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open
another
> instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for windows could
> render several images at once? perhaps this requires changes on the render
> engine level, but then also other platforms would benefit.
>
>

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In article <3bc5a1e0@news.povray.org>, "nlewis"
<noa### [at] writemecom> wrote:

> Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to finish,
> when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open
> another instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for
> windows could render several images at once? perhaps this requires
> changes on the render engine level, but then also other platforms would
> benefit.

I havent done it yet, but my plan when I get into rendering anims for my
project (still doing the scene) is to create a Render client-server system
useing python.  

The idea is still in it's infancy, but basically one would create a
scene, tell  the local client that you want to render it, and any other
machines on the network, who also run a client, will be notified and
start rendering a frame, when done they will ask the server for a new
frame.  

As I say I havnt looked at it, but povray has comands for rendering
subframes of a scene, and I'll basically be re0wrting the pov file with
different subframe numbers (for one frame) for each machine, then running
povray.  On the serface it looks easy.

This way even my 486 modem will be able to contribute on large anims...

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Hmm. Does anyone know how you would set up, say, three computers, to work
together on a long render/animation?
---
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
//Mahalis

"Rob Brown-Bayliss" <on_### [at] clearnetnz> wrote in message
news:3bc67645@news.povray.org...
> In article <3bc5a1e0@news.povray.org>, "nlewis"
> <noa### [at] writemecom> wrote:
>
> > Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to finish,
> > when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open
> > another instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for
> > windows could render several images at once? perhaps this requires
> > changes on the render engine level, but then also other platforms would
> > benefit.
>
> I havent done it yet, but my plan when I get into rendering anims for my
> project (still doing the scene) is to create a Render client-server system
> useing python.
>
> The idea is still in it's infancy, but basically one would create a
> scene, tell  the local client that you want to render it, and any other
> machines on the network, who also run a client, will be notified and
> start rendering a frame, when done they will ask the server for a new
> frame.
>
> As I say I havnt looked at it, but povray has comands for rendering
> subframes of a scene, and I'll basically be re0wrting the pov file with
> different subframe numbers (for one frame) for each machine, then running
> povray.  On the serface it looks easy.
>
> This way even my 486 modem will be able to contribute on large anims...
>
> --
>
>   Rob Brown-Bayliss
>  ---======o======---

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If it's something that you would do only a couple times per year, i would
say it's easier just to set up manually the frame's rendering. (Machine 1
does frames 1-33 , M2 does 34-66 and M3 does 67-99).

Obviously if you have machines with different speeds you have just to adjust
those things a little bit. All that until Rob comes up with his routine,
than it's just fire-and-forget. :-))

Will


"Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom> escreveu na mensagem
news:3bc6df9b@news.povray.org...
> Hmm. Does anyone know how you would set up, say, three computers, to work
> together on a long render/animation?
> ---
> camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare
T=texture{pigment{crackle
> scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
> rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
> c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
> merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
> cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
> cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
> file://Mahalis
>
> "Rob Brown-Bayliss" <on_### [at] clearnetnz> wrote in message
> news:3bc67645@news.povray.org...
> > In article <3bc5a1e0@news.povray.org>, "nlewis"
> > <noa### [at] writemecom> wrote:
> >
> > > Many times i find myself bored when waiting for a long render to
finish,
> > > when i could actually be using povray for something else. I can open
> > > another instance of pov, perhaps, but wouldn't it be nice if pov for
> > > windows could render several images at once? perhaps this requires
> > > changes on the render engine level, but then also other platforms
would
> > > benefit.
> >
> > I havent done it yet, but my plan when I get into rendering anims for my
> > project (still doing the scene) is to create a Render client-server
system
> > useing python.
> >
> > The idea is still in it's infancy, but basically one would create a
> > scene, tell  the local client that you want to render it, and any other
> > machines on the network, who also run a client, will be notified and
> > start rendering a frame, when done they will ask the server for a new
> > frame.
> >
> > As I say I havnt looked at it, but povray has comands for rendering
> > subframes of a scene, and I'll basically be re0wrting the pov file with
> > different subframe numbers (for one frame) for each machine, then
running
> > povray.  On the serface it looks easy.
> >
> > This way even my 486 modem will be able to contribute on large anims...
> >
> > --
> >
> >   Rob Brown-Bayliss
> >  ---======o======---
>
>

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