phrakture wrote:I thought povray was an interpreter... or compiler... or whatever you want to call it - like you make a text file with all the rendering info and then run "povray /some/file/to/render.x" - I've never used it, I'm just saying what I thought...
That is correct. It takes a text file that is coded in such a manner as to render an image when the code is compiled by povray. There used to be an online manual for povray. Beware though that you should be pretty good at math to use povray.
hooray! so I wasn't talking out my ass
]]>I thought povray was an interpreter... or compiler... or whatever you want to call it - like you make a text file with all the rendering info and then run "povray /some/file/to/render.x" - I've never used it, I'm just saying what I thought...
That is correct. It takes a text file that is coded in such a manner as to render an image when the code is compiled by povray. There used to be an online manual for povray. Beware though that you should be pretty good at math to use povray.
]]>It's in extra.
]]>It's in kdegraphics
]]>If I want to start creating some graphics, what do I have to do in the first place? Add some parameters to Povray when I execute it at the console or what?
]]>try grabbing "fyre" - it's much more fun to mess with
]]>What do I have to do to get a frontend working?
See ya.
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