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From: paulus
Subject: saving pictures
Date: 13 Jan 2000 17:31:12
Message: <387e5230@news.povray.org>

Hi!
I'm totally new user to POV-Ray and I use POV-Ray for Windows v3.1. I ran in
first problem: is it possible to choose output file format anywhere in
POV-Ray window or do I have to use command line switches? I'd like render
pictures by pressing 'Render' button rather than using command line
switches.

Paulus

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: saving pictures
Date: 13 Jan 2000 17:51:08
Message: <387E5727.823F05C2@pacbell.net>

paulus wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> I'm totally new user to POV-Ray and I use POV-Ray for Windows v3.1. I ran in
> first problem: is it possible to choose output file format anywhere in
> POV-Ray window or do I have to use command line switches? I'd like render
> pictures by pressing 'Render' button rather than using command line
> switches.
> 
> Paulus

You can specify the image format inside of an ini file using a switch so that
you don't have to specify it each time on the command line. For example I use
the switch for .tga output as my default. To do this I went to the tools
menu and selected the option to "edit master povray.ini" and added the following
line to the end of the .ini file - Output_File_Type = t . Save the file,
close out of POV-Ray, then restart before the option will take effect.

For other file formats look up the proper switch to use in the docs.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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From: paulus
Subject: Re: saving pictures
Date: 13 Jan 2000 18:18:02
Message: <387e5d2a@news.povray.org>

Thanks a lot :)

>paulus wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>> I'm totally new user to POV-Ray and I use POV-Ray for Windows v3.1. I ran
in
>> first problem: is it possible to choose output file format anywhere in
>> POV-Ray window or do I have to use command line switches? I'd like render
>> pictures by pressing 'Render' button rather than using command line
>> switches.
>>
>> Paulus
>
>You can specify the image format inside of an ini file using a switch so
that
>you don't have to specify it each time on the command line. For example I
use
>the switch for .tga output as my default. To do this I went to the tools
>menu and selected the option to "edit master povray.ini" and added the
following
>line to the end of the .ini file - Output_File_Type = t . Save the file,
>close out of POV-Ray, then restart before the option will take effect.
>
>For other file formats look up the proper switch to use in the docs.
>
>--
>Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
>http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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