POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Render frames backwards : Re: Render frames backwards Server Time
5 Aug 2024 12:20:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render frames backwards  
From: Johannes Dahlstrom
Date: 15 Nov 2002 10:43:01
Message: <3dd51604@news.povray.org>
Ken wrote:

> And I will counter with the argument that it would be silly to modify the
> program to allow backward frame processing and not also add the ability to
> detect what the other instance is working on so that overlapping frames
> are not rendered. I'm not sure how easy it would be to do in a cross
> platform environment.


Hmm... Wouldn't that be quite easy if the computers were connected through 
a LAN and shared a directory? Each instance could just write the number of 
the frame they are rendering to their own file and then check the other 
instance's file if the frame number is same?


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