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Nieminen Mika wrote in message <36f8b290.0@news.povray.org>...
> There's a little bug in povray for windows (at least in 3.1a and 3.1d):
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> For example, render a scene with max_trace_level 7. After rendering, one
>line of the messages window says something like this:
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>Rays: 40317 Saved: 0 Max Level: 7/7
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> Now change to max_trace_level 5. After rendering, the same line will say:
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>Rays: 40317 Saved: 0 Max Level: 7/5
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> Obviously it should say 5/5, not 7/5.
> If you restart povray and render the same scene, the line says,
correctly:
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>Rays: 40317 Saved: 0 Max Level: 5/5
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> The max level value will always change to higher but never to lower
values
>until you restart povray.
>
> This little bug will probably not annoy most of people, but if you are
>watching that value to search for good max_trace_values while changing the
>scene, you will get wrong results.
Why are there two numbers (Max Level A/B) present anyway?...
Since the second one always changes to the value you set in the scene, does
it matter that the first one does not appear to be correct?...
Matt
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