The problem was certainly not with POVRay, I knew that. Anyway, thanks very
much for the info! I was trying to use a named pipe and I had no control of
how POVRay was opening it and all.

I checked kiopov source and, knowing what to do, changed everything to use
unnamed pipes, which gave me a lot more control. I checked several times
(because sometimes things sync at random. kekekek) and everything works
great.

Thanks again.



Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> To me this sounds like a problem not related to POV-Ray - still if you
> have the impression POV-Ray does not correctly output to the fifo you
> should try writing the image to stdout (using '-o-' like described in
> the docs) and pipe that to the fifo (you can also duplicate the output
> for debugging purposes using 'tee' this way).
>
> In general using fifos is not so easy so you might start by testing your
> program operation with a different program before using it with POV-Ray.
>   A fairly nice example for a simple tool using a fifo can be found on:
>
> http://www.deez.info/sengelha/projects/sigrandd/doc/
>
> Also note you probably don't need to use a fifo to do what you are
> trying to do - for an example how you can process the output of POV-Ray
> directly in a program see KIO-POV:
>
> http://www.tu-bs.de/%7Ey0013390/kiopov/index.html
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/ (Last updated 01 Jul. 2005)
> MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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