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==Tips and Tricks==
 
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===To speed up rendering as much as possible on the Mac===
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===How to use TrueType fonts with the text object===
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<p>If you are in the beginning stages of scene creation, you often find
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<p>Using TrueType fonts with the [[Reference:Text|text]] object, <em>may</em> require an additional [[Reference:Scene Parsing Options#Library Paths|Library Path]] entry.</p>
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yourself editing, rendering, editing, rendering, etc. To speed this up,
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try shrinking the image size to 32x32, and using the quick_color
 
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statements and setting the Image Quality down to about 3. Also turning
 
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off the Preview Window during rendering speeds up POV-Ray a lot,
 
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sometimes 3 times faster! If you are generating a final scene, try
 
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temporarily booting your Mac with no (or few) extensions on. Some of
 
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these, especially screen savers, file sharing, virtual memory, and
 
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network connections, can really slow things down. POV-Ray grabs more
 
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time if it is in the foreground, so don't switch it out behind others.
 
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Also, choose the Preferences item from the Edit menu, and set the
 
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Application Friendliness throttle way up. Doing all of these can
 
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dramatically speed up the scene generation.</p>
 
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===How to use TrueType fonts in the "text" object===
 
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<p>POV-Ray since version 3.0 supports TrueType text objects. In previous
 
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version of POV-Ray Mac you first had to convert the fonts for use with
 
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POV-Ray. Since version 3.5 it will automatically locate the font for
 
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you and just use it based on the name. However, be aware that for many
 
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fonts only the ASCII characters will work as expected. Make sure to read
 
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the general documentation about other changes to the usage of the text
 
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object. Note that the general documentation refers to the
 
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<em>sys</em> charset. Unfortunately this is not supported yet in the
 
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current version.</p>
 
 
===Known Problems===
 
===Known Problems===
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<p>Right now POV-Ray will make use of Apple Events which will allow you
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<p>For technical reasons the Mac OS graphical user interface was not ready at the time of the version 3.7.0 release. For that reason, the <em>Official</em> distribution is a command-line only version.</p>
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to control POV-Ray Mac via Apple Script. However, the support is not
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<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> A graphical user interface is planned for future release.</p>
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complete yet and use may be a bit difficult right now because the
 
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terminology information (AETE resource) that comes with POV-Ray Mac is
 
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incomplete. Of course, this does not prevent you from using POV-Ray in
 
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any way other than remote controlling it easily. Obviously this is high
 
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on our list to complete soon.</p>
 
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<p>Two other little and possibly annoying quirks are that
 
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Block-indenting undo/redo does not undo/redo the whole action in one
 
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step and that Select All in message window is not supported. Of course,
 
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you can still save the whole Message Window to disk via the File menu
 
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<em>Save As...</em></p>
 
 
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Tips and Tricks

How to use TrueType fonts with the text object

Using TrueType fonts with the text object, may require an additional Library Path entry.

Known Problems

For technical reasons the Mac OS graphical user interface was not ready at the time of the version 3.7.0 release. For that reason, the Official distribution is a command-line only version.

Note: A graphical user interface is planned for future release.


Getting Started Table of Contents


This document is protected, so submissions, corrections and discussions should be held on this documents talk page.

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