jlindersmith wrote:
> I have an observation and a question, I create animation sequences
> frequently with my copy of this great little software package and have
> since 1993 found POV to be a really handy tool for visualization and
> creative work. My observation is this, when rendering animations,
> especially large complex scenes that require minutes or even hours of
> render time the status messages, which I assume are piped into the Message
> subwindow  from a command line level subroutine, we are virtually inundated
> with useful info such as;
> 
> Render Statistics
> Image Resolution 320 x 240
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Pixels:          2304000   Samples:         2304000   Smpls/Pxl: 1.00
> Rays:            2395228   Saved:                 0   Max Level: 2/5
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
> etc, etc, ad nauseum... bla, bla, bla...
> .....This is all useful information for evaluating system performance and
> scene complexity but a carefull review reveals no indication of the current
> clock value or frame number...
> 
> my question is this! why not include in the message stream the animation
> frame number or even clock value as a way of monitoring the progress of
> generating scene images? There is probably an easy preference check box or
> ini setting to have this really basic debug information forwarded to the
> user, as I have usually found that the programmers left almost nothing out
> of this simple yet very powerful software. This seems
> like a simple thing that has been overlooked but if there is anyone out
> there who knows a way to have this basic info presented durring the
> rendering process please let me know.
> 
> P.S. I use Tiger and version 3.6 and occasionally my pc under XP, but rarely
> 
> 
> 
The Frame Number, Animation Time and Frame Time used to be displayed in 
the render progress window but, as I understand it, they got lost in the 
new version.  Presumably (Hopefully) these features will be restored in 
version 4.

Regards,

A.D.B.
Long live the POV team.

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