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  Re: Resuming option not working in v3.7?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 27 Jan 2014 09:48:13
Message: <52e671ad$1@news.povray.org>
On 27-1-2014 14:27, Doctor John wrote:

> Are you using photons and/or radiosity in your scene?
>
> I could be wrong (I usually am) but if you are, photons and radiosity
> will be recalculated when you restart your scene unless you have saved
> the photon and radiosity files and then reloaded them when you restart
> the scene. This (recalculation) will give the impression that the scene
> is starting from scratch again.
>
> BTW you don't need +C for the first part of your run, it's only needed
> for the second and subsequent runs.

Another thing: If you stop the render session while /parsing/ is still 
active, you cannot use +C. It only works /after/ parsing is completed 
and some parts of the image have been finished before you stop the render.

Thomas


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