POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Real Time Ray Tracing Loop : Re: Real Time Ray Tracing Loop Server Time
21 May 2024 01:03:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Real Time Ray Tracing Loop  
From: Alain
Date: 25 Jun 2012 13:01:36
Message: <4fe89970$1@news.povray.org>

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to tell POV-ray to stop the real time ray tracing loop once it's
> reached a certain frame?
>
> Cheers
>
> Felix
>
>

Short: No.

Long:
When doing real time ray trace, there is no such thing as a frame count. 
The frame_number and clock variables are not used at all.
As you can't possibly know how many frames have been rendered, you can't 
stop after, say, 10, 100 or 1000 frames.



Alain


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