POV–Ray on Amazon EC2

Initial setup

To create a dedicated EC2 instance for POV-Ray 3.7 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

• Sign in to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Console at https://aws.amazon.com :

• Click "Compute -> EC2 -> Launch Instance":

• Select "Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-9abea4fb":

• Select "Filter by: Compute optimized":

• Select "Type: c4.8xlarge" and click "Next: Configure Instance Details":

• Select "Auto-assign Public IP: Enable" and click "Review and Launch":

• Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair and click "Launch instance":

Setup ssh on your computer

• Download the ec2.pem file from the EC2 Management Console and copy it to ~/.ssh/ec2.pem.

• Set permissions:

$ chmod 400 ~/.ssh/ec2.pem

• Add to your ~/.ssh/config the following lines:

Host ec2
 Hostname ec2-52-25-43-224.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # your EC2 hostname
 User ubuntu
 IdentitiesOnly yes
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ec2.pem

• Check that ssh works.

  You now should be able to login to the EC2 instance without entering a password:

$ ssh ec2

Setup POV-Ray, ffmpeg, youtube-upload

ubuntu@ec2~$ sudo apt-get -y install htop screen make povray

Render your first POV-Ray movie on EC2

• Upload the 00-hello POV-Ray scene files exported with BPP to EC2:

$ cd ~/bpp/exports/00-hello
$ make ec2-up

• Login to the EC2 instance and start the rendering process in a screen session:

$ ssh ec2
$ screen
$ cd 00-hello
$ make final

POV-Ray creates the files 00-hello-[N].png.

• To create the movie file 00-hello.mkv run:

$ make mkv

or a looped version 00-hello-loop.mkv:

$ make mkv-loop

Upload your first POV-Ray movie to YouTube (optional):

• Upload 00-hello.mkv to YouTube:

$ make youtube-up

or upload 00-hello-loop.mkv to YouTube:

$ make youtube-up-loop

Please post your results at:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/povray
• http://news.povray.org/povray.animations