I just posted PovWip in povray.binaries.utilities.

This program hooks into your .ini file, and automatically archives a 
small copy of every render you make. You can then easily build a "making 
of" animation using the archive.

In povray.binaries.animations there's already some sample movies I've 
made with PovWip. The glasses movie ("Animation of WIP") is probably the 
best example of what PovWip can do, except that I turned the mpeg 
compression up too high on the finished movie. :-(

Anyway, play with it on your next image. :-) I would really love to peek 
at other people's working methods. ;-)

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William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> You can then easily build a "making
> of" animation using the archive.

cool idea!  I guess better than my current scene1.pov, scene2.pov etc

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nemesis wrote:
> cool idea!  I guess better than my current scene1.pov, scene2.pov etc

It only saves the renders, not the pov files.

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William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > cool idea!  I guess better than my current scene1.pov, scene2.pov etc
>
> It only saves the renders, not the pov files.

hmm, so there goes my suggestion, because what if you liked wip 3 better
than wip 15?  If you decided to render wip 3 in a high quality setting, you
probably lost all the original details from the original scene... :)

of course, you could probably use some version control system like cvs or
svn, but I think it's too much for pov scenes...

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nemesis wrote:
> hmm, so there goes my suggestion, because what if you liked wip 3 better
> than wip 15?  If you decided to render wip 3 in a high quality setting, you
> probably lost all the original details from the original scene... :)

That's more than my program was meant to handle.

> of course, you could probably use some version control system like cvs or
> svn, but I think it's too much for pov scenes...

Hmm, there's got to be a decent versioning system that's built for 
single-user use. I might have to look into that.

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William Tracy wrote:

> Hmm, there's got to be a decent versioning system that's built for 
> single-user use. I might have to look into that.

cvs was built on rcs, which might be what your're looking for.

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William Tracy wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> hmm, so there goes my suggestion, because what if you liked wip 3 better
>> than wip 15?  If you decided to render wip 3 in a high quality
>> setting, you
>> probably lost all the original details from the original scene... :)
> 
> That's more than my program was meant to handle.
> 
>> of course, you could probably use some version control system like cvs or
>> svn, but I think it's too much for pov scenes...
> 
> Hmm, there's got to be a decent versioning system that's built for
> single-user use. I might have to look into that.
> 
	If you don't mind the command line, I'd suggest Mercurial. The
advantages for this kind of usage is that it stores all its data in
a subfolder. Typical usage would be:

> hg init
> hg addremove
> hg commit
... Work on your files
> hg commit
...

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

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William Tracy  wrote in message <46461d27$1@news.povray.org>:
> Hmm, there's got to be a decent versioning system that's built for 
> single-user use. I might have to look into that.

CVS and SVN are absolutely usable in single-user small projects.

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Nicolas George wrote:
> William Tracy  wrote in message <46461d27$1@news.povray.org>:
>> Hmm, there's got to be a decent versioning system that's built for 
>> single-user use. I might have to look into that.
> 
> CVS and SVN are absolutely usable in single-user small projects.

I've never actually set up a CVS/SVN server, so I don't know how hard it 
is. My suspicion is that it's going to be overly complicated for this, 
especially for Windows users.

Still, once its set up, SVN would be fantastic. CVS would probably be 
pretty good too, since the horrible bandwidth sucking wouldn't be so bad 
on a local machine. :-P

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William Tracy wrote:
> I've never actually set up a CVS/SVN server, so I don't know how hard it 
> is. My suspicion is that it's going to be overly complicated for this, 
> especially for Windows users.

You don't need a server for Subversion, it can access a repository 
directly in the file system.

"Especially for Windows users", there is TortoiseSVN 
<http://tortoisesvn.net/> (IMHO the best GUI Subversion client I've seen 
on any platform - too bad there is nothing that comes close on Mac OS 
X). I believe it also does repository creation and maintenance (what 
you'd use "svnadmin" rather than "svn" on the command line), though I've 
never used that.

I've never used SVN for a POV project, but then I haven't done much 
POVing at all lately - if I were to start a big project now, I'd 
certainly use it.

  -Christian

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