Hi, I'm just getting started with povray, and I can't find this
info anywhere, so my question is: Is there a standard per-user config
file for povray under unix/linux, like ~/.povrayrc or ~/.povray.conf
that povray will find by default and that will override the system
povray.conf?

The POVINI environment variable doesn't seem to work,
but that might be my problem.

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Among other things, Bill Hails wrote:

> Hi, I'm just getting started with povray, and I can't find this
> info anywhere, so my question is: Is there a standard per-user config
> file for povray under unix/linux, like ~/.povrayrc or ~/.povray.conf
> that povray will find by default and that will override the system
> povray.conf?
> 
> The POVINI environment variable doesn't seem to work,
> but that might be my problem.

I have a ~/.povrayrc file with settings like these:

Output_to_File=true
Output_File_Type=N8
Quality=9
Antialias=true
Antialias_threshold=0.3
Antialias_Depth=2
Sampling_Method=2
Jitter=false
Jitter_Amount=1.0

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"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> file for povray under unix/linux, like ~/.povrayrc or ~/.povray.conf

You've already written out the answer. That's exactly what I've got on my
system. Use povray.ini renamed to ~/.povrayrc and povray.conf renamed to
~/.povray.conf.

BTW I have a feeling (tho' I could be wrong) that the docs say that the use
of povray.conf has not yet been implemented under Linux. Whatever, my
.povray.conf is basically totally non-restrictive - I've been doing a lot of
shell-outs recently.

John
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Doctor John wrote:

> 
> "Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
> news:3e4fe1db@news.povray.org...
>> file for povray under unix/linux, like ~/.povrayrc or ~/.povray.conf
> 
> You've already written out the answer. That's exactly what I've got on my
> system. Use povray.ini renamed to ~/.povrayrc and povray.conf renamed to
> ~/.povray.conf.
> 
> BTW I have a feeling (tho' I could be wrong) that the docs say that the
> use of povray.conf has not yet been implemented under Linux. Whatever, my
> .povray.conf is basically totally non-restrictive - I've been doing a lot
> of shell-outs recently.
> 
> John
> --
> War is not good for children and other living things

Thanks, to both you and Jellby, I unluckily had only tried a ~/.povray.ini 
:-)

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"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote
> Thanks, to both you and Jellby, I unluckily had only tried a ~/.povray.ini

You're welcome

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hi,

Doctor John wrote:
> BTW I have a feeling (tho' I could be wrong) that the docs say that the use
> of povray.conf has not yet been implemented under Linux. Whatever, my
> ..povray.conf is basically totally non-restrictive - I've been doing a lot of
> shell-outs recently.

you are right. ;)

i was just wondering which one was wrong;
povray complaining about i/o restrictions, or the docs.
my feeling is that the docs are not up to date.

however, you are saying that the settings in povray.conf
are working for you... but i am just trying to set up
a very simple config, and it doesn't work at all:

~/.povray.conf
---
[File I/O Security]
none

[Shellout Security]
allowed

[Current Directory Read/Write]
allowed
---

(/usr/local/etc/povray.conf is the same)

povray is run with

   +Lmy_source_dir +Imy_source_dir/test.ini

it seems that /usr/local/etc/povray.ini is read, but
still, povray refuses to load any other source file!

---
   Input file: my_source_dir/test.ini (compatible to version 3.5)
[...]
   Library paths: /usr/local/share/povray-3.5
     /usr/local/share/povray-3.5/include my_source_dir
[...]
Parsing...Scene File Parser Initialization Error:
Reading from my_source_dir/test.ini is not permitted.
Check the configuration in /usr/local/etc/povray.conf
or ~/.povray.conf.
---

BTW, how can povray tell that the file is "compatible"
to anything if it cannot even read it??

(needless to say that i am the owner of the file, and
all the files are readable...)


could someone please confirm that this configuration
would actually work, so i can go and look for other
reasons...?


thanks in advance,

g.


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