--- ray/doc/man/man1/ranimove.1 2005/09/17 05:14:14 1.4 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/ranimove.1 2012/09/28 02:26:59 1.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: ranimove.1,v 1.4 2005/09/17 05:14:14 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: ranimove.1,v 1.7 2012/09/28 02:26:59 greg Exp $" .TH RANIMOVE 1 1/30/03 RADIANCE .SH NAME ranimove - render a RADIANCE animation with motion @@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ The first is the name of a parent move object, or "voi If given, the object's transformation will be prepended to that of its parent. The second argument is the name of this object, which will be used -to name surfaces it contains, and as a modifier for any child objects -that reference it. +to name surfaces it contains, and as a parent identifier for any child +objects that reference it. The third argument is the transformation string or file for this object. If this argument is enclosed in quotes and begins with a hyphen ('-'), then it will be interpreted as a @@ -215,17 +215,17 @@ appended to the command, and its output will be passed the input of .I xform for each frame. -An optinal fifth argument +An optional fifth argument specifies the rendering priority for this object. -Values greater than 1 will result in preferential rendering of +Values greater than 1.0 will result in preferential rendering of this object over other portions of the image when it appears in a frame. -Values less than 1 will cause the rendering to neglect this object in +Values less than 1.0 will cause the rendering to neglect this object in favor of other parts of the image. A value of 3.0 can be interpreted as saying the viewer is three times more likely to look at this object than the background. A file may be given rather than a floating point value, and this file must -contain one floating point number per line, corresponding to frames in the -animation. +contain one floating point number per line, corresponding to priorities +for frames in the animation. .TP .BR VIEWFILE This variable names a file from which @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ how to adjust the exposure for each frame. As in .I pfilt, the exposure setting may be given either as a multiplier or as a -number of f-stop adjustments (eg. +2 or -1.5). +number of f\-stop adjustments (eg. +2 or \-1.5). Alternatively, a file name may be given, which .I ranimate will interpret as having one exposure value per line per frame, @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ The base output file name for the final frames. This string should contain a .I printf(3) style integer field to distinguish one frame number from another. -The final frames will use this name with a ".pic" suffix. +The final frames will use this name with a ".hdr" suffix. The default value is "frame%03d". .TP .BR MBLUR @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ If we only want to see what default values would use without actually executing anything, we can invoke it thus: .IP "" .2i -ranimove -n 0 -e sample.rnm +ranimove \-n 0 \-e sample.rnm .PP This will print the variables we have given as well as default values