Hello Paul Bourke,

maybe I better start a new thread with this question,
would be fair to other contestants:

Would you accept a command line option like +KFF50, if
we accomodate the POV file length accordingly?
Eg to 250 bytes, as '+KFF50' is 6 bytes?

Except of having a determined ini file, that will be used
in your renderings, I don't see a rule forbidding (additional)
command line options.

I'd say this is a case of  "If you have any special requirements
please let me know." and not a case of "A valid entry will
consist of a *single* text file..."

I don't really want to render an animation, but I'd like to use a
rendered image as input for the next render and thereby render
a series of pictures.

Or is there a way to set Final_Frame within the pov scene code
anyway?

I'm very dependant on that option: If I eg use +KFF9 as command
line option, I must use clock*8 in the scene file code to compute the
number of the previously rendered image rather than using
frame_number-1, as that is too long. The code does fail, if there
is no animation loop. So submitting the POV scene file without
the allowance of such an option would be useless.

Bye, Olaf.

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"Olaf Doschke" <b2x### [at] t-onlinede>
wrote:
> Hello Paul Bourke,
> Would you accept a command line option like +KFF50, if
> we accomodate the POV file length accordingly?
> Eg to 250 bytes, as '+KFF50' is 6 bytes?
>

If I were the judge, I'd OK this.

--
jute

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> Would you accept a command line option like +KFF50,

..... snip ...

> I don't really want to render an animation, but I'd like to use a
> rendered image as input for the next render and thereby render
> a series of pictures.

Sorry for the delayed reply to this ... I noticed your image was rather
"boring" with the standard render so looked at the entry and saw your
comments. I have no problem with this (rather innovative actually) and have
rendered your entry
accordingly. It still fits in with the theme of a limited scene file ....
hopefully there isn't a use of the command line or ini options that can be
abused. :-) The system is quite automated and don't really want to tweek
the settings for each entry.

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P a u l   B o u r k e
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/

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> > Would you accept a command line option like +KFF50,
> If I were the judge, I'd OK this.
> jute

In a sense I don't need to decide on the "appropriatenss" of this ... the
judges are the other entrants so they can decide whether it is OK with
their vote.

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P a u l   B o u r k e
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/

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> Sorry for the delayed reply to this ... I noticed your image was rather
> "boring" with the standard render so looked at the entry and saw your
> comments. I have no problem with this (rather innovative actually) and have
> rendered your entry

Thanks, great!

> accordingly. It still fits in with the theme of a limited scene file ....
> hopefully there isn't a use of the command line or ini options that can be
> abused. :-) The system is quite automated and don't really want to tweek
> the settings for each entry.

Yes, that was my concern too. I also have no idea
how many entrants there are and what overhead
this would cause.

Could have been worse and you wouldn't get just a
boring result, which made you read the comments,
but a nonfunctioning entry, that you'd simply reject.
Especially with an automated rendering of the scenes.

Bye, Olaf.

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