Best of Shareware/Best of PC Windows Shareware 1.0 - Wayzata Technology (7111) (1993).iso/mac/ZIPPED/DOS/GRAPHICS/POVSRC.ZIP/MACHINE.ZIP/MAC.SIT/pov.π.rsrc.rsrc/STR#_5001.txt

Text File | 1992-06-11 | 7KB | 79 lines

This is the source file window. This window allows you to view and edit the text descriptions of the scenesou wish to have rendered. Currently, a source file can be no longer than 32000 characters.

This is the status window. In this window, POV displays various informational messages and error conditions.

This is the image window. This is where POV does the actual drawing of the image.

To set paths to tell POV where to find other #include files for source files, type the pathnames in here. The path must consist of the entire pathname of the file. If any of the files have spaces in the name, you must surround the entire pathname with "".

To make your rendering go faster, click here. This will give POV more of the computer's time, making your file render faster, but it will also make it difficult for background applications in MultiFinder or System 7 to do anything while POV is rendering.

To give more time to applications in the background, and to make POV a better neighbor in the MultiFinder or System 7 environment, click on this button. It tells POV to not be a pig of the computer, but can make rendering slower.

To change the default threshold at which antialiasing occurs, type a number between 0.0 and 1.0 in this box. A value of 0.0 means that every pixel will be antialiased, while a value greater than 0.5 will mean almost no pixels are antialiased.

To turn antialiasing off by default, click on this box. Antialiasing smooths out abrubt changes in color by comparing the current dot to surrounding dots and then blending the colors, and can add significantly to the time that it takes to render the file.

To use antialiasing by default, click on this box. Antialiasing "smooths out" abrubt changes in color by comparing the current dot to surrounding dots and then "blending" the colors, and can add significantly to the time that it takes to render the file.

To change the default image quality, type a number from 0 (min) to 9 (max) in this box. The higher the number, the better looking the image will be, but the longer it will take to render.

To change the default height of a rendered image, in pixels, type a number in this box. Larger images require more memory, so you should increase POV's partition if you work with large images.

To change the default width of a rendered image, in pixels, type a number in this box. Larger images require more memory, so you should increase POV's partition if you work with large images.

To dismiss this dialog and leave the application settings unchanged, click on this button.

To dismiss this dialog and save the currently selected default settings for the application, click on this button, or press <Return>.

To set the size of the rendered image to 640 X 480 pixels click this button. These settings are appropriate for a high quality image. Antialiasing is on, and the image quality is 9, or the maximum. This gives you a full-screen picture on a 13" monitor.

To set the size of the rendered image to 320 X 320 pixels click this button. These settings are appropriate for a medium quality image. Antialiasing is off, and the image quality is 9, or the maximum.

To set the size of the rendered image to 32 X 32 pixels (Icon Size) click this button. This is good for getting a quick look at what an image will look like without waiting several hours and can also be used to create custom icons.

To render a file without continuing from where the original session left off, click here.

To continue rendering a file rendered in Targa format, click here. Currently dimmed because "Targa Output", above, is not enabled.

To continue rendering a file rendered in Targa format, click here. In order to continue rendering, you must have rendered the file originally with "Targa Output", above, enabled.

To disable Targa output, click here. This will prevent you from restarting this rendering from where you left off, should you need to interrupt it.

To enable Targa output, click here. This will allow you to stop the rendering in the middle and to start it again later at the same place you left off. Also, you can exchange images in Targa output with users computers other than Macintoshes.

To change the threshold at which antialiasing occurs, type a number between 0.0 and 1.0 in this box. Currently dimmed because "Antialiasing", above, is not checked.

To change the threshold at which antialiasing occurs, type a number between 0.0 and 1.0 in this box. A value of 0.0 means that every pixel will be antialiased, while a value greater than 0.5 will mean almost no pixels are antialiased.

To turn antialiasing off, click on this box. Antialiasing "smooths out" abrubt changes in color by comparing the current dot to surrounding dots and then "blending" the colors, and can add significantly to the time that it takes to render the file.

To use antialiasing, click on this box. Antialiasing "smooths out" abrubt changes in color by comparing the current dot to surrounding dots and then "blending" the colors, and can add significantly to the time that it takes to render the file.

To change the image quality, type a number from 0 (min) to 9 (max) in this box. The higher the number, the better looking the image will be, but the longer it will take to render.

To change which scanline to finish rendering at, type a number in this box. If you want to render the entire image, type in the same number as in the "height" field, above.

To change which scanline to begin rendering from, type a number in this box. If you want to render the entire image, type '0'.

To change the height of the rendered image, in pixels, type a number in this box. Larger images require more memory, so you should increase POV's partition if you work with large images.

To change the width of the rendered image, in pixels, type a number in this box. Larger images require more memory, so you should increase POV's partition if you work with large images.

To dismiss this dialog and leave the file settings unchanged, click on this button.

To dismiss this dialog and change the settings for this file to the currently displayed values, click on this button, or press <Return>.

This dialog allows you to specify the settings for the current source file. Put the mouse over an item in the dialog to find out more about it.

Brings the Image Window to the front, making it the active window. Currently dimmed because there is no image being rendered yet.

Brings the Image Window to the front, making it the active window.

Brings the Source Text Window to the front, making it the active window. Currently dimmed because no documents are opened yet.

Brings the Source Text Window to the front, making it the active window.

Brings the Status Window to the front, making it the active window. Currently dimmed because there is no status window up yet.