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POV-Ray for Windows: Default Output Path? 
 
Bob Williams has a request: What should I add to my .ini file to direct output to a particular directory?  Using a DOS .DEF or .BAT file it would be something like

-oc:\targas\%1.tga

but I would rather work from the Windows front end. It seems to create output files in the same directory as the source is located.
 
Jonathan Addleman clears this up:
 Output_File_Name=c:\graphics\pics\

This really should be more clear in the docs. I'm pretty sure that almost everybody would use this switch, but it takes some messing around to find the format that works. Actually, I think a more efficient interface could be arranged for windows. More like a Dos program that I saw a while ago - "pov-shell" I think was the name. I don't like messing with the ini files every time I want to make a change! Though it is nice to save the most often used setups. For example - It would be nice to open up an ini file designed for animation, with all the other optimization stuff in place and whatever. But then be able to change the number of frames, and the image size and so on without messing around in a text editor. Any comments?
 
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