In article <41727d58$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> You can do this by using INI files, they are explained in the reference
> section of the documentation.

hmmm, I've been looking into this, and I've actually done it in the 
past, but it's not working the way I remember. At first I thought the 
ini just needed to be the same name and next to the pov file. Then, what 
I was reading made me think putting #include "filename.ini" at the top 
of the pov file would do it but I just get errors (; comments are 
listed). More reading said I put Input_File="filename.pov" (or similar) 
in the ini but I can't 'render' an opened ini file.

The only way I got an ini to be used and not throw errors is to open the 
render settings and type in the ini file in the command line string. I'm 
going to dig up my old program and see if it handled ini's, read some 
more, but ultimately I think I'm going to try hacking the resource fork.

> > I want to use pov as a render engine and not have to mess with code
> 
> You might want to consider getting the Unix version and compiling it rather
> than using the Mac GUI version.  It would give you a plain command-line
> version of POV-Ray.

Actually I want to be able to see the render as it's progressing. 
Ideally I want to model and specify rendering in my app, hit the render 
button which creates a file and pov automatically renders it, then go 
back to my app to change stuff or open render settings in pov and have 
it show whats been specified from my app. I think i can do this if I can 
write the resource fork properly. In fact I got the source to try to 
find the code that writes the file but I get lost. I don't have code 
warrior so I can't make changes and I'm not skilled enough to know how 
to change the unix source to compile in X code:( So I have to work with 
pov as it is. I'm going to look at megapov and applescript support for 
both. -few

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I had the same problem. It was EXTREMELY frustrating because I had spent so
long becoming extremely proficient on povray for windows XP, and when I
switched to a Mac (I'm just learning about macs) I suddenly could not even
render a simple scene.

It may not be obvious to a windows user, but you have to go to
Edit>Preferences, go to the Scenes tab, and Add the directory with the
include files.  Then it will at least render a small picture with the
default render settings.

It may ALSO not be obvious to a windows user that you MUST INCLUDE the
".pov" extension EXPLICITLY when you save the file, otherwise the
Edit>Render Settings... will be grayed out.

Hope that helps people with the same problem.
~C



"Gallygaskins" <nor### [at] dahlfamilyorg> wrote:
> "John  Conaway" <jcc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > Hopefully I figure this out before i see a reply but i doubt it, I can not
> > get into the render settings, it is a faded option in the edit drop down
> > menu? I can not seem to open it
>
> Both the Render Settings option and the Render option are inactive until
> you have saved your script with a .pov extension and its window is active;
> these options are replaced with <filename> Settings and Render <filename>
>
> Maybe the Mac installer is a bit unstable, as I was surprised to find the
> include path was not defined in a standard installation (and maybe
> other paths I haven't found yet). Earlier posts in this list got me out
> of trouble.
>
> HTH
> Gallygaskins

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