Your answer hits my worst fears: after three days working on a photon file 
which has not yet been saved, all is lost!

My question is: why allows POV a scene to be continued, but not a photon 
file?

Please, developers, create the possibility to also continue the photon map 
file after a stop (of which reason ever). POV-Ray partially writes data into 
an image, so it can continue where the previous render was stopped. Could 
the same procedure of partial writing into a file not be applied to the 
photon file, as well?

THIS IS A FEATURE REQUEST.

Sven



"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:479bc587@news.povray.org...

>> Since around 3 days, POV-Ray (Windows version) rendered a file with 
>> photons. I used the option "save_file "HeliChopper 02 Gray Fleet on 
>> Ground.ptn". Since those 3 days, POV creates the photon map. Now I had a 
>> power cut, and would like to know, if there is an option to continue the 
>> photon map file building, where it stopped, similar to the "+c" option 
>> for the raytracing itself.
>>
>
> The file is saved only when the whole photon shooting finishes. If you 
> have a file on disk, then it's complete (unless the power cut was while 
> the file was being written, unlikely).

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