I have googled all over for this... but I haven't found a good solution.

I am up to the point of generating a series of .pov files that correspond to
frames in the movie.

Then I need to convert each .pov to a .bmp.  I haven't found a good way of
doing this... is there a way to programmatically access the queue in POV?
Because it is too much of a pain to add every file to the queue manually.
I also tried running the individual frames through the command line with
/render and then /exit, but it seems quite slow (in comparison to my fast
preview mode, where each frame takes a fraction of a second to render) --
because the whole GUI and splash screen starts and exits for every frame.

Then I have an bmp2avi tool -- if anyone has any recommendations about this
I would appreciate it too.

Thanks in advance for any help.  It seems like this is probably a common
thing and there is already an accepted way of doing it.

p.s. Also -- what is the new server name?  news.povray.org?  I can't seem to
connect to it via NNTP.

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> I am up to the point of generating a series of .pov files that correspond
to
> frames in the movie.

Can't you generate a single .pov file which outputs several frames? After
all, if it's supposed to be an animation, the frames can't be that much
different from each other so that they couldn't be done *somehow* internally
using the clock?

That aside, I'll look into the Queue-Thingy myself and see what I can find,
but about the Encoding, I'd recommend TMpgEnc, which you can get from
http://www.tmpgenc.net.

And the news-server is news.povray.org, that's correct.

Regards,
Tim

-- 
"Tim Nikias v2.0"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:05:14 EDT, "Andy C" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Then I need to convert each .pov to a .bmp.

You mean... render it? :-)

> I haven't found a good way of
> doing this... is there a way to programmatically access the queue in POV?

well...

1. create empty master.pov
2. set COUNTER=1
3. set FILENAME to name of first pov file in given set 
4. append to master.pov file

     #if(frame_number=$(counter))
       #include "$(FILENAME).pov"
     #endif

5. set FILENAME to name of next pov file in given set
6. if FILENAME not empty then increase COUNTER and jump to 4)
7. render master.pov using initial frame=1 and final frame=COUNTER

Helped ?

ABX

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Now to the Queue:

In the POV-Ray folder, you'll find a folder called "ini", in which you find
"pvtools.ini" and "pvengine.ini" (that is, if you're using the Windows
version, but the files should basically be the same for other OS', if I'm
not mistaken).
In "pvengine.ini", at the very end, there are the following lines:

[FileQueue]
ReloadOnStartup=1
QueueCount=0

Now, if you want to add files to that, you'd have to add to the QueueCount
and add the files, like this:

QueueCount=2
QueuedFile0=E:\Sources\c.pov
QueuedFile1=E:\Sources\a.pov

Note that the numbering for the QueuedFile begins at 0 and has no leading 0s
when you move beyond 10 or 100 files.

What you should do then, is is just add them to "pvengine.pov" and set
QueueCount on the proper number. If you want them to get rendered
automatically once you start POV-Ray, there's an option called "AutoRender"
somewhere which has to be set to 1 to render automatically.

Hope that helps,
Tim

-- 
"Tim Nikias v2.0"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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Cool, thanks a lot for your quick response.  That should work great, but
you're right I should probably put everything in on .pov file.  I'm new to
this.  : )

Andy

"Tim Nikias" <JUSTTHELOWERCASE:timISNOTnikias(at)gmx.netWARE> wrote in
message news:41723b1c$1@news.povray.org...
> Now to the Queue:
>
> In the POV-Ray folder, you'll find a folder called "ini", in which you
find
> "pvtools.ini" and "pvengine.ini" (that is, if you're using the Windows
> version, but the files should basically be the same for other OS', if I'm
> not mistaken).
> In "pvengine.ini", at the very end, there are the following lines:
>
> [FileQueue]
> ReloadOnStartup=1
> QueueCount=0
>
> Now, if you want to add files to that, you'd have to add to the QueueCount
> and add the files, like this:
>
> QueueCount=2
> QueuedFile0=E:\Sources\c.pov
> QueuedFile1=E:\Sources\a.pov
>
> Note that the numbering for the QueuedFile begins at 0 and has no leading
0s
> when you move beyond 10 or 100 files.
>
> What you should do then, is is just add them to "pvengine.pov" and set
> QueueCount on the proper number. If you want them to get rendered
> automatically once you start POV-Ray, there's an option called
"AutoRender"
> somewhere which has to be set to 1 to render automatically.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Tim
>
> --
> "Tim Nikias v2.0"
> Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>
>
>

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