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6 May 2024 02:00:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question: Aborting Pre-Trace: Possible to Continue?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 11 Feb 2016 07:24:43
Message: <56bc7d8b$1@news.povray.org>
On 11-2-2016 12:13, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi, just a general question:
>
> I started to render a large, slow scene. Right now, it is pre-tracing
> (radiosity). Since a day or so.
>
> If I decide to abort and continue a next time, would I lose all
> pre-traced squares and have to start all over (despite using "+c")? Or
> would POV-Ray be able to keep these pre-traced areas? Thanks.
>

Unfortunately you loose all the pre-trace. +c only works when the render 
proper has started. Pre-tracing then restarts after the last rendered point.

-- 
Thomas


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