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  Help for povray needed!
 
Hy, I'm currently writing an enhanced export function for MLCad and had the idea to include povray into the export process. My question: is there any way to start povray (for Windows 3.1) from the command-line to just generate a picture for an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
You probably want something like : povengine /RENDER <filename> /NR /EXIT Here is a copy of the docs from POV3.1 concerning this: Special Command-Line Options POV-Ray for Windows supports several special command-line options not recognized by other (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
(...) <SNIP> Thanks, this helps a lot, but now there is one problem left: MLCad first creates the dat file to be converted, than calls L3P to convert it into pov and than it executes pov-ray with the above statement. If you do that for multiple (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
(...) There are a couple of ways around this. One is to write all the POV-Ray commands to a .BAT file, using the START command with its /WAIT option. After compiling all the needed files, run the .BAT file. Another way is to launch POV-Ray, then put (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)  
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> Thank you steve! Over the week-end I had more time, and found exactly the same way, just in C++. But (how should it be different) there is another problem ... This works fine for pov-ray, with L3P this (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
Michael Lachmann skrev i meddelandet ... (...) which (...) If you create a shortcut for L3P (and start _that_ from MLCAD), you can set the 'Close Window on Exit' flag in the shortcut. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Help for povray needed!
 
(...) about this trick. Michael (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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