POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : -QR setting : Re: -QR setting Server Time
2 Aug 2024 14:16:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: -QR setting  
From: dan B hentschel
Date: 28 Sep 2004 16:25:00
Message: <web.4159c85160b1a417a3fcf12a0@news.povray.org>
martin <"(martin)"@[blecket].org> wrote:
> I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find much
> when I searched with the web interface.
>
> It used to be that radiosity could be turned on and off from the command
> line with +QR/-QR, but not anymore. Is this really the way most people
> would like to have it?
>
> I find that it's convenient to have a radiosity block with all kinds of
> setting in it, and then have a simple way to toggle rendering with or
> without radiosity (especially since I have a program which generates POV
> files). IMHO, the best alternative would be to be able to disable
> radiosity with -QR, but to have it on by default, if there is a
> radiosity block in the scene file.
>
> But maybe this behaviour is not likely to be changed again.
>
> / martin

You can use +q8. According to the documentation, quality level 9 turns on
media and radiosity. If you don't care about media, then +q8 is pretty much
the same thing as -qr.


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