POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 3.5, +C corrupts PNG files : Re: 3.5, +C corrupts PNG files Server Time
5 Aug 2024 22:12:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.5, +C corrupts PNG files  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 27 Jul 2002 12:20:52
Message: <3d42c864@news.povray.org>
> OK, I render it as 1280x1024 AA 0.3 PNG output, stop it in the middle
> (Alt+G). I add +C, restart: preview display quickly the done job and
> calculate the remainder. Again, OK. The intermediate PNG images are even
> displayed OK by IrfanView.
> So, no problem for me on WinNT4.
>
> Mmm, however, I got two rendered files (seemingly identical) and a message
> indicating it wasn't able to open the original file, so it was creating a
> new one.
> This can be related to WinNT file access problem I have sometime (ie. a file
> is locked even after the end of the locking program).

This doesn't show the prob I mean ...

Don't stop the image in the middle of the render...

Let it render once, completely!
then render it again with the +c switch ...

afterwards the original file got corrupted.


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