POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : QUESTION: Random Seed deriving from Time? : Re: QUESTION: Random Seed deriving from Time? Server Time
27 Apr 2024 05:36:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QUESTION: Random Seed deriving from Time?  
From: Alain
Date: 19 Feb 2018 17:05:01
Message: <5a8b4a0d$1@news.povray.org>
Le 18-02-19 à 09:18, Sven Littkowski a écrit :
> Thanks, that is what was needed!
> 
> I think, the SEED chapter of the POV-Ray help file really need to
> mention "now" and "now * 24*60*60", as many users might be in need of
> irregularly random renders. "Now" is not even mentioned at all there,
> now does the key "F1" open any content help for "now".
> 
> In fact, even with many existing keywords in the help file, only this
> happens when clicking them: the HELP opens a new page, but that is just
> the begin of the documentation, not the part dealing with that
> particular keyword.
> 
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The included help was not completely updated since version 3.6.0, and 
now did not exist back then.
You may have beter results using the wiki based help.


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