Submitted by crz on Wed, 2004-03-17 12:28
if I want to make an animation for povray, am i right that that only works
when idividual scenes are rendered from framsticks. So if I want an
animation of 40 sec, that results in 1000 frames so framsticks then will
export 1000 individual *.pov files. Hope i'm wrong on this one cause this
realy leads to diffuculties in povray for me. Is there no way to "include"
or "merge" all these scens into one animated pov file.
this is what I read on the framsticks website:" Then, an exported scene file
is created in each simulation step (but observing the skip frames
parameter). Every scene file #includes "world.inc". ". And trying it out
myself looking for an solutions was unsuccesful, so any advice would be much
appraciated
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Re: export scene to pov-ray
> if I want to make an animation for povray, am i right that that only works
> when idividual scenes are rendered from framsticks.
Yes.
> So if I want an
> animation of 40 sec, that results in 1000 frames so framsticks then will
> export 1000 individual *.pov files.
Yes. You can then render all of them automatically using POV-Ray
command-line (or GUI), then use (for example) VirtualDub to make
a movie from 1000 .tga or .bmp files.
MacKo
Re: export scene to pov-ray
guess that cammand line is a batch file. when trying that I get the folowing
error (and thus doesn't render scene), maybe you can tell me whats wrong
here. So have a batch file, located in the bin dir. of povray and next to
it a sample pov scene + the 2 inc files:
It prompts me with the following
text (in the blue bottom info field of povray):
--------------------------------------
Possible command line errror: unknown switch '0000.pov'
command line error: problem with command line or INI file
return from renderer eith error status
---------------------------------------
the batch file I use now states:
pvengine.exe +H512 +W384 +A0.3 +0000.pov +000Otest.bmp /exit (is this the
correct writing, cause it just starts and then closes without rendering
pvengine.exe +H512 +W384 +A0.3 +0000.pov +000Otest.bmp "/exit" (withone
should it be, cause this one gives me the stated message above)
is there something wrong with the writing of this file or the location (the
file works when i render via the gui myself)
PS. when asking it on my eporters programme newsgroup I got this reply, but
am not sure if that is the same solution (command-line) with the batch
operation or something different:
--------------
Yes. You can then render all of them automatically using POV-Ray
command-line (or GUI),
--------------
Is this the correct way of doing this or do you have a better solution (or
could you provide me a sample batch file or command-line text so that it
will work for me also)
thx
"Maciej Komosinski"
wrote in message news:c3ffqh$ms2$1@cancer.cs.put.poznan.pl...
> > if I want to make an animation for povray, am i right that that only
works
> > when idividual scenes are rendered from framsticks.
>
> Yes.
>
> > So if I want an
> > animation of 40 sec, that results in 1000 frames so framsticks then will
> > export 1000 individual *.pov files.
>
> Yes. You can then render all of them automatically using POV-Ray
> command-line (or GUI), then use (for example) VirtualDub to make
> a movie from 1000 .tga or .bmp files.
>
>
> MacKo
>
Re: export scene to pov-ray
ok solved it,
but for others:
\pvengine.exe +H640 +W480 +A0.3 +Itest.pov
+Otest.bmp +KI0 +KF1 +KFI1 +KFF25 /exit
just repeat this line for every pov-file you want to render
+H sets the height of the output picture
+W sets the width of the output picture
+A sets antialiasing
+I sets the file to be rendered (input)
+O sets the file to be written to (output)
+KI sets initial clock
+KF sets final clock
+KFI sets initial framenumber
+KFF sets final framenumber
"crz" wrote in message
news:c3fs7b$n8f$1@cancer.cs.put.poznan.pl...
> guess that cammand line is a batch file. when trying that I get the
folowing
> error (and thus doesn't render scene), maybe you can tell me whats wrong
> here. So have a batch file, located in the bin dir. of povray and next to
> it a sample pov scene + the 2 inc files:
>
> It prompts me with the following
> text (in the blue bottom info field of povray):
> --------------------------------------
> Possible command line errror: unknown switch '0000.pov'
> command line error: problem with command line or INI file
>
> return from renderer eith error status
> ---------------------------------------
> the batch file I use now states:
> pvengine.exe +H512 +W384 +A0.3 +0000.pov +000Otest.bmp /exit (is this the
> correct writing, cause it just starts and then closes without rendering
>
> pvengine.exe +H512 +W384 +A0.3 +0000.pov +000Otest.bmp "/exit" (withone
> should it be, cause this one gives me the stated message above)
>
> is there something wrong with the writing of this file or the location
(the
> file works when i render via the gui myself)
>
> PS. when asking it on my eporters programme newsgroup I got this reply,
but
> am not sure if that is the same solution (command-line) with the batch
> operation or something different:
> --------------
> Yes. You can then render all of them automatically using POV-Ray
> command-line (or GUI),
> --------------
>
> Is this the correct way of doing this or do you have a better solution (or
> could you provide me a sample batch file or command-line text so that it
> will work for me also)
>
> thx
>
>
> "Maciej Komosinski"
> wrote in message news:c3ffqh$ms2$1@cancer.cs.put.poznan.pl...
> > > if I want to make an animation for povray, am i right that that only
> works
> > > when idividual scenes are rendered from framsticks.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > So if I want an
> > > animation of 40 sec, that results in 1000 frames so framsticks then
will
> > > export 1000 individual *.pov files.
> >
> > Yes. You can then render all of them automatically using POV-Ray
> > command-line (or GUI), then use (for example) VirtualDub to make
> > a movie from 1000 .tga or .bmp files.
> >
> >
> > MacKo
> >
>
>