I am using POVRay 3.1 for win98 and I can't find an option anywhere to save
the image to disk.  How on earth do I do that?  Is there a good site that
explains these sorts of things?  The help file that came with it does a
terrible job of explaining out to use the program (it only ges into detail
about what the menu options mean, which doesn't do a damn thing for me
because I can't find the bloody option).  I need help with this ASAP.
Thanks

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Hi there Sean,

  POV-Ray 3.0* Doc was better suited to the tutorial aspect perhaps,
matter of opinion really.  Anyway, all you need do is have a scene
file (*.pov) open in the editor and press the Run button for Windows
version.
This renders your scene and saves the file as the scene name with a
Bmp extension into C:\images\ folder (if you so set up during install,
otherwise it goes into the folder where the scene file resides).

Bob

Sean Robertson <sea### [at] infinet> wrote in message
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> I am using POVRay 3.1 for win98 and I can't find an option anywhere
to save
> the image to disk.  How on earth do I do that?  Is there a good site
that
> explains these sorts of things?  The help file that came with it
does a
> terrible job of explaining out to use the program (it only ges into
detail
> about what the menu options mean, which doesn't do a damn thing for
me
> because I can't find the bloody option).  I need help with this
ASAP.
> Thanks
>
> --
>
> Sean Robertson
> Multimedia Artist, PilotOnline
>
> _______________________________________
> Work Email: sea### [at] infinet
> Personal Email: web### [at] webolutionarycom
>
> trueSpace-Mania: http://truespace.mania-online.com
> Midi-Mania: http://midi.mania-online.com
>
>

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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:58:00 -0400, "Sean Robertson" <sea### [at] infinet> wrote:

>I am using POVRay 3.1 for win98 and I can't find an option anywhere to save
>the image to disk.  How on earth do I do that?  Is there a good site that
>explains these sorts of things?  The help file that came with it does a
>terrible job of explaining out to use the program (it only ges into detail
>about what the menu options mean, which doesn't do a damn thing for me
>because I can't find the bloody option).  I need help with this ASAP.
>Thanks

Sean
In the "Tools" menu go to "Edit master POVRAY.INI"

Notepad will then launch and if you look through this file you will see a line;
Output_File_Name= <file>   where <file> is the location in which POV-Ray will store
the
output files.  This has a default option that I have forgotten, but you will see it. 
Look
in there and you should see all the files that you have been rendered.

You can edit this line and the one that follows to have files stored where you want
and
choose from the several file formats available.
In my case I have edited these lines to read;

Output_File_Name=C:\POV images\tga\
+FC

This means that all my output files are stored C:\POV Images\tga and are in compressed
targa format.

To get further information on the options available look in the main POV-Ray
documentation
under "File Output Options"

Hope this helps,
David
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Sean Robertson wrote:
> 
> I am using POVRay 3.1 for win98 and I can't find an option anywhere to save
> the image to disk.  How on earth do I do that?  Is there a good site that
> explains these sorts of things?  The help file that came with it does a
> terrible job of explaining out to use the program (it only ges into detail
> about what the menu options mean, which doesn't do a damn thing for me
> because I can't find the bloody option).  I need help with this ASAP.
> Thanks
> 
> --
> 
> Sean Robertson
> Multimedia Artist, PilotOnline

  The others already answered your primary question but since you are
likely to have others similar to this one I suggest you spend a few
minutes browsing through the VFAQ. It was put together by several of
the people here concerning questions that fall into the "very frequently
asked questions" category and you can learn a lot of the basics from this
list.

http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ.html

  Also see my links page for a wealth of online tutorials and POV-Ray
related programs, resources, and utilities.


-- 
Ken Tyler

See my 1000+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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I suspect that you don't use the right help file. There are two of them, a
system-specific one that explains the interface and a general one that explains
the syntax and options. In the windows version, the first one is called "Help
on Pov-ray for windows" and the second one is called "Help on the pov-ray scene
language" (both available in the Help menu). Look for the second help file.

Gilles Tran

Sean Robertson wrote:

> The help file that came with it does a
> terrible job of explaining out to use the program (it only ges into detail
> about what the menu options mean, which doesn't do a damn thing for me
> because I can't find the bloody option).

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