moppel wrote:

> 
> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> * Multithreading Support
>> POV is going multithreaded. An SDL that allows to multithread parts or maybe
>> even all of the parsing would be of benefit there. This might be particularly
>> of importance for animations.
> 
> Actually, for animations it's not really so important. When rendering an
> animation, you can just run several instances of Povray, each rendering a
> different part of the animation. That's what I'm doing.

For longer length animations, I sometimes have used separate .ini files, 
each one written to render half a second (12 frames) of the same 
animation.  I then pass out the .INI files to different rendering boxes, 
all of them writing the files in the same network drive directory.

> I only would have one feature request regarding animations: Please add a
> "DoNotRenderAgain"-Option or so such that frames are only rendered when the
> output file doesn't already exist.

I think POV-Ray already runs this way.  I've done more than a few 
animation renders, and the frames that already have a complete file 
don't get re-rendered.  I think the option "AlwaysRender" is more needful.

Regards,
John

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