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28 Sep 2024 10:59:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Win95 (and maybe mac) bug: global_settings are persistent  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 5 Oct 1998 01:20:17
Message: <36184901.0@news.povray.org>
Im Beitrag <3618120f.77248053@news.povray.org> , par### [at] mailfwicom (Ronald L.
Parker) schrieb:

>I've found an annoying little bug in the Win95 GUI version of POVRay,
>and possibly in other GUI versions.  When you render a scene with 
>max_trace_level set to something other than the default, it seems to
>remember that max_trace_level setting for the next render.  To test
>this, do the following:
>
>1) create a scene that shows artifacts from a small max_trace_level.
>Render it.
>2) add a line to the scene setting max_trace_level high enough to
>remove the artifacts.  Render it again.
>3) remove the line setting max_trace_level and rerender.
>
>Notice that the result of (3) does not match the result of (1).  While
>this is basically only an annoyance, it may also apply to other global
>settings and should probably be fixed to avoid confusion.

You are right, this will happen. But most (only except of Max_Trace_Level?) are set
correctly in the function init_vars in povray.c.


    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany


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