POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Linux framebuffer patch version 0.2 released : Re: Linux framebuffer patch version 0.2 released Server Time
15 May 2024 23:34:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Linux framebuffer patch version 0.2 released  
From: Nicolas Calimet
Date: 13 Aug 2005 13:41:02
Message: <42fe30ae@news.povray.org>
> - version 0.1 had a "hidden" (undocumented) feature which allowed to dump
>   the screen to a PPM file.  Press the 'q' key at any time during the
>   rendering stage to output a dump.ppm file in the current directory.

	Correction: pressing the 'q' key will abort the render (if +x or
Test_Abort=On are set).  To dump the screen, press 'd' while rendering.
The rendering will pause a fraction of a second - the time required to
write the file on disk.

	- NC


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