POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.animations: Frames in animation sequence take successively longer to render: Re: Frames in animation sequence take successively longer to render

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From: Stephen
Date: 23 Feb 2006 05:20:00
Message: <web.43fd8b8df29e319bb1b469160@news.povray.org>

"White Ryder" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> But anyway, back to my question:  Does anyone know of anything that POV-Ray
> does while rendering an animation sequence that would explain why very
> similar frames would take successively longer to render?
>

I’ve had similar problems with some scenes. It is possible that you
have a memory leak. If you are using windows you can check using the Task
Manager. My work around is to split the frames using a couple of INI files
with contiguous Subset_Start_Frame and Subset_End_Frame then use the render
queue to render them in sequence.
E.g.

Scene01.ini

Initial_Frame=1
Final_Frame=30
Subset_Start_Frame=1
Subset_End_Frame=1
Input_File_Name= Scene.pov

Scene02.ini

Initial_Frame=1
Final_Frame=30
Subset_Start_Frame=2
Subset_End_Frame=2
Input_File_Name= Scene.pov

And so on.

Stephen

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