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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 18:00:20 CST

Hi Troy,
  I'm going to have to implement a special hack to make the POV-Ray
render option work well. For now, you can use Tachyon or the snapshot
option. If you need the snapshot option to look nicer, then I'd
recommend using the blur/resample options I added to the most recently
released version of the script, preferably with the ppmtompeg encoder, if
you're on a unix platform. If this isn't sufficient, tell me which platform
you're running on and I can make better suggestions. I am working on an
updated version of the movie generator already, I hope to have it done
in the next few days, it'll address several little issues like this that
people have reported.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:02:43PM -0500, Troy Wymore wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been experimenting with the vmdmovie generation code. I
> can't seem to get the right resolution for the movie using povray to
> render the frames. In fact the frames are all 320x240 and I would like to
> have them twice as big. I went into the tcl script and explicitly added
> +H480 +W640 to the povray command. That does not work so the resolution
> must be getting set somewhere else.
>
> Any clues on how to fix?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Troy Wymore
>
> PS This movie making generation code is really nice. Great job!
> 

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