Le_Forgeron wrote:

> the same issue will be happening whatever the colour
> or pattern: sometime it will be invisible)

the same holds for the grey-checkered background pattern indicating
not yet rendered blocks. It's not likely that a real scene will match
it exactly and if it pathetically does then it's not very critical.

So a rather non-invasive method of marking blocks might be to use the
exact same pattern that is already there but with different colors, e.g.
black-red instead of gray-white.

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On 2/26/2011 1:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> In the preview window, draw a semi-transparent border around the blocks
>> being currently rendered.
>
> Or toggle between normal and inverse video a couple times a second?
>

And here I was just thinking it should be a plain box with an x marked 
through it... drawn sort of like the bounding boxes :)

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On 2/26/2011 4:26 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
> Maybe toggling for each pixel updated, so you can see how fast each
> block is rendering? :-)
>

The block currently being rendered doesn't show anything until the 
render is complete for that block.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> And here I was just thinking it should be a plain box with an x marked 
> through it... drawn sort of like the bounding boxes :)

Since the box is apparently empty until the whole box is calculated, it 
would seem to be a perfectly fine solution. (I had forgotten how it looked, 
but I guess I was remembering seeing entire blocks being updated instead of 
individual pixels of a particular block.)

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Trevor G Quayle <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Yes, I don't care about how it will look as long as it's off by default.

  If it's a subtle border around the block being rendered, why is it so
important to be off by default?

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Trevor G Quayle <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > Yes, I don't care about how it will look as long as it's off by default.
>
>   If it's a subtle border around the block being rendered, why is it so
> important to be off by default?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

If it's subtle I suppose.  I wasn't liking the idea of flashing or marching
borders.

-tgq

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