POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Preview settings ignored : Re: Preview settings ignored Server Time
4 May 2024 19:46:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Preview settings ignored  
From: clipka
Date: 15 Sep 2016 20:08:16
Message: <57db37f0@news.povray.org>
Am 16.09.2016 um 00:44 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> I'm not sure what's going on, but I set these lines in the INI file:
> 
>     Preview_Start_Size=32
>     Preview_End_Size=16
> 
> but it starts rendering blocks of 82x82 pixels, then 41x41 pixels, then
> ~20x20 pixels (it varies by zero or one pixel in either direction), then
> ~10x10 pixels (again it varies betwen 9 and 11).
> 
> Afterward, it started over at 32x32 pixels, and then 16x16 pixels.
> 
> Why does it need to do so many passes when I only specified two?

Are you perhaps using radiosity?

That feature needs to do a few passes with increasing resolution before
the actual main render. Looks like mosaic preview but isn't.


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