POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : .RCA files : Re: .RCA files Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:26:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: .RCA files  
From: Maurice
Date: 5 Feb 2005 13:47:11
Message: <420514af$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Maurice wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes I find a file with the extension .rca after rendering.
> 
> 
> Only when you interrupt a render.
> 
>> Anybody know what the rca file is for?
>>
> 
> That's the radiosity sample cache, it is always written during a render 
> using radiosity and is deleted when the render is finished.
> 
> Christoph
> 

Thanks, I suspected radiosity to be involved. Didn't make the link to 
interupted renders though.

-- 
Maurice


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