Rendering lots of images

[Brisingre]

I am looking for a script that, given a list of coordinates (preferably easily definable) will render images from each set of coordinates. I need to render a lot of large images, and as I'm not fortunate enough to have a render farm, I need to render them all on one machine. The thought arises to render them all over the course of several days, and I would rather not have to check back every ten minutes to set up the next one. Anybody have such a script

thanks

[Brisingre]

Anybody?

[old_blaggard]

Terragen has a built-in scripter that you can use to set this up.

[gregsandor]

Anyone using Terragen ought to bookmark this page:  http://terrasource.net/ 

Brisingre, go get CamPath (version 3 not 4) http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~somalley/campath.html 
Use it to create the script, then in Terragen, set the scene up and run the script.  It will do exactly what you are after.

[pauli]

I am looking for a script that, given a list of coordinates (preferably easily definable) will render images from each set of coordinates.

Do you mean you want to manually define coordinates for each image?
In that case you could just manually edit the script using a text editor.

At your Terragen home directory (where the terragen.exe is located) there should be an example script "Example.tgs".
It contains comments to describe each script command.
Basically, to render an image at some coordinates, you would need the following commands:

CamPos  x,y,z
TarPos  x,y,z
FRend

And a command such as
  initanim  "C:\temp\tgpic", 1
at the beginning of the script to set the filenames.

If you have an advanced text editor such as Vedit, you could create a script to create the script. 

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