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Understanding POV-Ray Options

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===Understanding POV-Ray Options===
<p>
Options are what previous versions of POV-Ray used to refer to as command-line options. The
term is no longer accurate for POV-Ray 3.x, because the command line is only one way of passing
options to the program. The other, more convenient way, is to use
[[Documentation:Unix Section 5#INI Files|INI files]].
</p>

===Special Command-Line Options===
<p>
POV-Ray for Unix supports several special command-line options not recognized by other
versions. They follow the standards for programs
that run under the X Window System.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>-display <display_name></code>
<dd>Display preview on display_name rather than the
default display. This is meant to be used to
change the display to a remote host. The normal
dispay option <code>+d</code> is still valid.

<dt><code>-geometry [WIDTHxHEIGHT][+XOFF+YOFF]</code>
<dd>Render the image with WIDTH and HEIGHT as the
dimensions, and locate the window <code>XOFF</code> from the
left edge, and <code>YOFF</code> from the top edge of the screen
(or if negative the right and bottom edges respectively).
For instance: <code>-geometry 640x480+10+20</code> creates a
display for a 640x480 image placed at (10,20) pixels from the
top-left corner of the screen.
The <code>WIDTH</code> and <code>HEIGHT</code>, if given, override
any previous +Wn and +Hn settings.

<dt><code>-help</code>
<dd>Display the X Window System-specific options. Use
<code>-H</code> by itself on the command-line to output the general POV-Ray
options.

<dt><code>-icon</code>
<dd>Start the preview window as an icon.

<dt><code>-title <window_title></code>
<dd>Override the default preview window title with window_title.

<dt><code>-visual <visual_type></code>
<dd>Use the deepest visual of visual_type, if available, instead of the
automatically selected visual. Valid visuals are StaticGray, GrayScale,
StaticColor, PseudoColor, TrueColor, or DirectColor.
</dl>

<p class="Note">
<strong>Note:</strong> if you are supplying a filename with spaces in it, you will
need to enclose the filename itself within quotes.
</p>

===Benchmark Rendering Mode===
<p>
POV-Ray for Unix has a builtin version of the standard benchmark scene.
To run this scene use the <code>-benchmark</code> command line option:
</p>

<pre>
povray -benchmark
</pre>

<p>
Note that running the benchmark takes some time, on a 2 GHz PC processor
about 45 minutes. There will be no image or file output from this render.
For more information on the standard POV-Ray benchmark have a look at the
[http://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php|_new <span title="Opens A New Window!">Benchmarking with POV-Ray</span>]
page.
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 ===Benchmark Rendering Mode===
-<p>
+<p>POV-Ray for Unix has a <em>built-in</em> version of the standard benchmark scene. In version 3.7 the <em>built-in</em> benchmark mode has been further modified to run without accessing <em>any</em> other distribution files, so now benchmarking can now be done with <em>just</em> the compiled executable.</p>
-POV-Ray for Unix has a builtin version of the standard benchmark scene. To run this scene use the <code>-benchmark</code> command line option:</p>
+<p>To run this scene use the <code>--benchmark</code> command line option:</p>
 <pre>
-povray -benchmark
+povray --benchmark
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 ===Special Command-Line Options===
 <p>POV-Ray for Unix supports several special command-line options not recognized by other versions.  They follow the standards for programs that run under the X Window System.</p>
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-<p class="Note">
+<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you are supplying a filename with spaces in it, you will need to enclose the filename itself within quotes.
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 <!--</wikitalk>--->
 ==Understanding POV-Ray Options==
-<p>
+<p>Options are what previous versions of POV-Ray used to refer to as command-line options. The term is no longer accurate for POV-Ray 3.x, because the command line is only one way of passing options to the program. The other, more convenient way, is to use <!--<linkto "INI Files">INI files</linkto>--->[[Documentation:Unix Section 5#INI Files|INI files]].</p>
 ===Special Command-Line Options===
-<p>
+<p>POV-Ray for Unix supports several special command-line options not recognized by other versions.  They follow the standards for programs that run under the X Window System.</p>
 <dl>
 <dt><code>-display &lt;display_name&gt;</code><!--</dt>--->
-<dd>Display preview on  display_name  rather  than  the
+<dd>Display preview on  display_name  rather  than  the default  display.   This  is  meant  to  be used to change the display to a remote  host.   The  normal dispay option <code>+d</code> is still valid.<!--</dd>--->
 <dt><code>-geometry [WIDTHxHEIGHT][+XOFF+YOFF]</code><!--</dt>--->
-<dd>Render the image with WIDTH and HEIGHT as the
+<dd>Render the image with <code>WIDTH</code> and <code>HEIGHT</code> as the dimensions, and locate the window <code>XOFF</code> from the left edge, and <code>YOFF</code> from the top edge of the screen, or if negative the right and bottom edges respectively.<br>For instance: <code>-geometry 640x480+10+20</code> creates a display for a 640x480 image placed at (10,20) pixels from the top-left corner of the screen. The <code>WIDTH</code> and <code>HEIGHT</code>, if given, override any previous <code>+Wn</code> and <code>+Hn</code> settings.<!--</dd>--->
 <dt><code>-help</code><!--</dt>--->
-<dd>Display the X Window System-specific options.   Use
+<dd>Display the X Window System-specific options. Use<code>-H</code> by itself on the command-line to output the general POV-Ray options.<!--</dd>--->
 <dt><code>-icon</code><!--</dt>--->
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 <dt><code>-title &lt;window_title&gt;</code><!--</dt>--->
-<dd>Override the default preview window title with window_title.<!--</dd>--->
+<dd>Override the default preview window title with <strong><code>window_title</code></strong>.<!--</dd>--->
 <dt><code>-visual &lt;visual_type&gt;</code><!--</dt>--->
-<dd>Use  the  deepest  visual of visual_type, if available, instead of the
+<dd>Use  the  deepest  visual of <strong><code>visual_type</code></strong>, if available, instead of the automatically  selected visual.<!--</dd>--->
 </dl>
-<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you are supplying a filename with spaces in it, you will need to enclose the filename itself within quotes.
+<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you are supplying a filename with spaces in it, you will need to enclose the filename itself within quotes.</p>
 ===Benchmark Rendering Mode===
 <p>
-POV-Ray for Unix has a builtin version of the standard benchmark scene.
+POV-Ray for Unix has a builtin version of the standard benchmark scene. To run this scene use the <code>-benchmark</code> command line option:</p>
 <pre>
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-<p>
+<p>Note that running the benchmark takes some time, on a 3 GHz AMD x2 250 processor with 4GB ram, about 12 minutes. There will be no image or file output from this render. For more information on the standard POV-Ray benchmark have a look at the [http://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php Benchmarking with POV-Ray] page.</p>
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 about 45 minutes.  There will be no image or file output from this render.
 For more information on the standard POV-Ray benchmark have a look at the
-[http://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php|_new <span title="Opens A New Window!">Benchmarking with POV-Ray</span>]
+[http://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php Benchmarking with POV-Ray]
 page.
 </p>

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