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  Re: Render a portion of a scene?  
From: ChaoZ
Date: 20 Mar 2006 22:15:00
Message: <web.441f6f3c5ea1898ebd58a3560@news.povray.org>
Good tip. Good thing I wasn't using anything complicated.

It's a relatively simple scene that is really big (10000x5000) and uses a
focal camera, that's why it's slow. Plus, it's being rendered on a laptop.

Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> ChaoZ <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Heh, I guess I should've read the docs carefully first. The Start_Row=0.n
> > command was exactly what I needed (Where 0 is the row number to start with,
> > and n is the percent of the file to render). So I used Star_Row=3750.100
>
>   The correct way of continuing an interrupted render is to use the
> command-line option +c besides all the other original settings (make a
> backup of the incomplete image file first, just in case). This works
> correctly even if you use radiosity (using start_row won't).
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp


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