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25 Apr 2024 20:31:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: qtpovray-3.80.5 for Linux  
From: dick balaska
Date: 3 Aug 2018 05:30:53
Message: <5b6420cd$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/03/2018 03:49 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 02.08.2018 um 23:51 schrieb dick balaska:
> 
>>> With regard to Kenneth's recent query - can I select a portion of a render to
>>> have it re-rendered?  I haven't had a chance to do a lot over the past couple of
>>> days.
>>
>> I missed that.  And that would be a povray (clipka) question. I would
>> guess "no".
> 
> Actually, I guess it is a qtpovray question:
> 
> In POV-Ray for Windows, you can select a region of the preview with the
> mouse and it will give you the option to re-render only that portion of
> the scene (by quietly passing `+sc`/`+sr`/`+ec`/`+er` information to the
> render engine).
> 
> You can also shift-select the region and it will give you the option to
> add/replace the corresponding command-line switches to/in the
> command-line input field, so that later renders will also render that
> particular portion.
> 
> 
> I think Bald Eagle's question was whether qtpovray also provides a
> mechanism to set those switches using only the mouse.
> 

I see. No, I never knew that. Does it merge the newly rendered pixels in
to the existing graphic?  I'm going to have to try this out.

-- 
dik
Rendered 328976 of 330000 (99%)


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