POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : managing long renderings : Re: managing long renderings Server Time
5 Aug 2024 18:24:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: managing long renderings  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 12 Aug 2002 08:23:20
Message: <3D57A8B8.A34B4CEA@gmx.de>
GRUMBLE wrote:
> 
> is there a possibility to manage very long time renderings?
> i mean, can i pause it somewhere, then shut down the computer and go to
> sleep and continue rendering the next day?

You can stop the render and continue using the '+c' command line option. 
This continues the render at the end of the (unfinished) image file. Be
careful with this when using radiosity though.

> and how long was your personal record with still image and with animation?
> :-)

45 days for a still, but in several pieces each ~10 days.

Christoph

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