Unfortunately, I've used both frame_number and clock.

I have a foggy recollection of there being a way to keep the same ol'
Final_Frame (say 4000) yet say have povray render 3050,3100,3150,3200. This
would greatly help in the debugging of a scene where I've made a lot of
changes to the camera and want to make sure it still flows well.


Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Greg M. Johnson <pte### [at] thecommononethatstartswithycom> wrote:
> > I want to do a rough step-through of a long animation.  I'd like to render
> > every tenth frame and keep the Final_Frame the same, as I know some things
> > will get messed up.
>
> > I thought there was a command for making the clock increment larger than
> > that otherwise calculated, but couldn't find it in the docs.
>
>   The 'clock' always goes from 0 to 1. It's the number of frames which
> decides the size of the increments. Thus using 'clock' with that in mind
> will always scale the animation to the number of frames, so if you want
> to eg. just render each 10th frame just divide the number of frames by 10.
>
>   However, if you are using 'frame_number' in your scene, then it won't
> work. 'frame_number' doesn't scale, it's the absolute frame being rendered.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

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