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2 Aug 2024 02:24:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: .RCA files  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 5 Feb 2005 05:45:02
Message: <cu2815$48f$1@chho.imagico.de>
Maurice wrote:
> Sometimes I find a file with the extension .rca after rendering.

Only when you interrupt a render.

> Anybody know what the rca file is for?
> 

That's the radiosity sample cache, it is always written during a render 
using radiosity and is deleted when the render is finished.

Christoph

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