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From: BillTheFish
Subject: Commandline question
Date: 10 Apr 2004 20:00:34
Message: <40788aa2$1@news.povray.org>
When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray auto
exit after it finishes?  I worte a samll batch file to convert LDraw DAT
files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render these files. 
In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it continues with the
next file.  This is really annoying and defeats the reason I created the
batch file in the first place: to allow for unattended conversion and
rendering of a large number of files.  I looked in the documentaion and
found nothing which is very surprising since POV-Ray has some of the best
documentation I've seen.  Any help would be appreciated.

-BTF


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 10 Apr 2004 21:57:45
Message: <4078a619@news.povray.org>
BillTheFish wrote:

-P


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From: Tom Galvin
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 10 Apr 2004 22:59:38
Message: <Xns94C7E9D818A07tomatimporg@203.29.75.35>
"BillTheFish" <ano### [at] anoncom> wrote in news:40788aa2$1@news.povray.org:

> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray
> auto exit after it finishes?  

/EXIT

Also you may want to use /NR so that it does not load other files from your 
last session.

I am assuming you are using the windows version.


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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 11 Apr 2004 01:42:54
Message: <Xns94C84E5DAA1BBraf256com@203.29.75.35>
ano### [at] anoncom news:40788aa2$1@news.povray.org

> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray
> auto exit after it finishes?  I worte a samll batch file to convert
> LDraw DAT files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render
> these files. In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it
> continues with the next file. 

By the way, can POV be runned in some silent mode (in Windows version) - 
say - it will started minimized to system tray for example? 
This would be quite usefull for remote-rendering on windows machines.

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From: Tom Galvin
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 11 Apr 2004 10:41:52
Message: <Xns94C86CC0786E0tomatimporg@203.29.75.35>
"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com> wrote in 
news:Xns94C84E5DAA1BBraf256com@203.29.75.35:


> 
> By the way, can POV be runned in some silent mode (in Windows version) - 
> say - it will started minimized to system tray for example? 
> This would be quite usefull for remote-rendering on windows machines.
> 

Nope.  You could use Christoph Hormann's povcyg instead.  
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povcyg/

With Firedaemon, you can run it as a service too.

http://www.firedaemon.com/

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Tom
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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 11 Apr 2004 16:12:27
Message: <4079A690.7060906@hotmail.com>
If you are using the windows version you could also
try to set the on completion action for render to exit.
(menu:Render/On Completion.../Exit POV-Ray for windows)
That is how I did it before figuring out how to use /exit ;).

	Andrel

BillTheFish wrote:

> When rending using the command line, is there a way to have POV-Ray auto
> exit after it finishes?  I worte a samll batch file to convert LDraw DAT
> files to POV format using L3P and then excutes POV to render these files. 
> In all cases I have to manually close POV-Ray before it continues with the
> next file.  This is really annoying and defeats the reason I created the
> batch file in the first place: to allow for unattended conversion and
> rendering of a large number of files.  I looked in the documentaion and
> found nothing which is very surprising since POV-Ray has some of the best
> documentation I've seen.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> -BTF


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From: billthefish
Subject: Re: Commandline question
Date: 12 Apr 2004 17:47:49
Message: <407b0e85$1@news.povray.org>
Thanks for the help guys.  I appreciate it

BillTheFish

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