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- The Nifty Image Viewers
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- These viewers are a handy way to look at the images you have
- produced with POVRay 3. The Targa viewer will work on the ST,
- the STE or the Falcon, and will produce far more colours than
- each of those machines is normally capable of (4096 on an ST,
- 32768 on the STE, and 16 million on the Falcon). The GIF
- viewer will only work on the Falcon, but it does handle extra
- features of it's own - like mouse panning and animated GIFs.
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- You can set up the viewers in a number of different ways. The
- easiest is to install them as double-click applications with
- the desktop application menu. With this approach, you only
- need to double-click on an image to look at it. Another way
- to go about it is to simply drag the image onto the TTP file.
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- Another particularly good trick for POVRay users is to set up
- POVRay 3 as a tool in the Devpac or Lattice text editor which
- will allow you to 'render' the top window when you select the
- POVRay 3 tool with your scene in the current edit buffer. The
- Targa viewer can be set up in a similar way, so that you can
- view the newly rendered image belonging to the top window by
- just selecting the Targa Viewer tool!
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- Details of this approach are covered in the Atari-specific
- documentation found in the DOCS folder of this POV3 archive.
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- Doug Little ~ July 1997
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