In article <3eb164a4$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> > Is there a way to get POV to check to make sure it actually
> > CAN continue a trace before spending three quarters of an
> > hour shooting photons?
> 
> Yes, by specifying a image format that supports this?  Or what is your
> question?

I think he's talking about the processing POV does before it figures out 
that it can't continue a trace. Looking at the source, it parses the 
scene and does a lot of initialization before it looks at the output 
file. It would be better to check this immediately after reading the 
command line and .ini file but before parsing.

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