POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Stopping a render : Re: Stopping a render Server Time
20 Apr 2024 12:31:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stopping a render  
From: Alain
Date: 4 Dec 2016 17:02:04
Message: <5844925c$1@news.povray.org>
Le 16-12-04 à 05:07, Stephen a écrit :
> On 12/4/2016 8:11 AM, omniverse wrote:
>> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> Am 04.12.2016 um 05:35 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>>>> I started rendering a 16 frame animation. I am at frame #8, and want to
>>>> stop when this one is done. How do I tell POV-Ray to stop after the
>>>> current frame and not continue? I don't want to start the sequence over
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> Are we talking about Unix or Windows?
>>>
>>> IIRC the Windows version already pops up a warning when stopping a long
>>> render; maybe we could extend that window to offer three choices: Stop
>>> now, stop as soon as the current frame has finished, or simply continue.
>>
>> Would be great to be able to do that, but the current method would be
>> to just
>> stop rendering and use +C to continue later. At least for Windows.
>> Should be possible to either use that on the command line before
>> beginning the
>> animation frames (before any frame is made) or after stopping the
>> rendering
>> (adding +c before restart). Just jumps (eventually) to the next in
>> line needing
>> the render.
>>
>
> You should also use:
> Subset_Start_Frame
> Subset_End_Frame
>
> when restarting the render. Or PovRay will start at the first frame and
> step through them to see if that frame has been rendered before
> continuing the render. If you have lots of frames rendered it is annoying.
>
Subset_Start_Frame should be enough, unless you don't want to render to 
the end of the animation.


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