Hans-Willi Raedt wrote:

> hi animators:
>
> I've got a strange problem:
>
> I want to render 400 frames (for a start) over the weekend. After 251
> frames, rendering stops with the error:
>
> "Can't read stones1.inc, file not found, necessary for parsing"
>
> This behaviour I got on debian gnu linux 2.0, povray 3.0 package
> installed, on two different boxes:
>
> 1) p200, 64MB, scsi - disk after 9 hours
> 2) p100, 32MB, eide - disk after 21 hours
>
> Any ideas how to fix this ?
>
> Regards
>
> Hans-Willi

  I'm sorry I don't know why it stopped rendering and then gave you
the error message. But there is something you can try, to recover,
without having to render the first 251 frames again. Add the following
lines to your povray.ini :

Subset_Start_Frame = 251
Subset_End_Frame = 400

I don't know if linux supports INI files like windows does.
If it does not you will have to read the docs to find the
command line switches for these functions. It should
work either way. These swqitches will let you start at
frame 251 where you stopped and run all the way to the last
frame you want at frame 400.

Ken Tyler

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