On 6/25/2010 9:42 AM, clipka wrote:
> Strictly speaking, there is no way to /continue/ a /failed/ render:
> Whatever the reason was for failure, another attempt is pretty likely to
> fail for the very same reason.
>
> +C only gives you a way to continue /aborted/ renders, i.e. where you
> said, "screw it, I don't have the patience for this today".
>
> The mechanism is that when you abort a render preliminarily, POV-Ray (A)
> writes the output file as far as it got, and (B) dumps some internal
> state variables to a file, the name of which will be derived from (IIRC)
> the main scene file name (might be the output file name though, I'd have
> to look that up).
>
> What you still need to make sure yourself when picking up the render
> again, is that (A) you use the same command line and INI file parameters
> (except for the +C and possibly radiosity and photons load/save
> options), and (B) the scene file parses the same as before.
>
> If you're using the Start/End_Row options, essentially the same
> limitations will apply, or you'll risk a visible transition between the
> "old" and "new" portions of the resulting image. And you'll have more
> work to do.

Thanks for the explanation!


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