On 05/16/2013 04:14 PM, MichaelJF wrote:
> H all around,
>
> I'm not quit sure if this is a bug or a misunderstanding but I tried to save
> radiosity data within an ini-file to restart a longer rendering again. First I
> rendered the Scene with the ini-options
>
>
> Antialias=on
>
> Antialias_Threshold=0.3
> Antialias_Depth=3
> Input_File_Name=Labyrinth.pov
>
> Width=1920
> Height=1080
>
> Radiosity_File_Name="Labyrinth.rad"
> Radiosity_To_File=on
>
> Render_Pattern=3
> Render_Block_Size=8
>
>
> and later I wanted to resume the Rendering with
>
> ; Persistence Of Vision raytracer sample file.
>
> Antialias=on
>
> Antialias_Threshold=0.3
> Antialias_Depth=3
> Input_File_Name=Labyrinth.pov
>
> Width=1920
> Height=1080
>
> Continue_Trace=on
>
> Radiosity_File_Name="Labyrinth.rad"
> Radiosity_From_File=on
>
> Render_Pattern=3
> Render_Block_Size=8
>
> but POV ignored the Continue_Trace and the load of the radiosity file completely
> and started to calculate the radiosity from the beginning (usually with +C at
> the command line without loading radiosity data from disk POV calculates the
> radiosity only for the not rendered parts of the image). May be this is due to
> the use of an other render pattern (I wanted to render the most difficult parts
> first).
>
> May be I misunderstand the documentation, has someone a hint?
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
>
>

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:General_Output_Options#Resuming_Options

2nd paragraph: "The Continue_Trace option may not work if the Start_Row 
option has been set to anything but the top of the file ... "

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