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From: fidos
Date: 13 May 2008 14:05:00
Message: <web.4829d7266f09fee6d93b772e0@news.povray.org>
"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
> > there seems to be an error with png-output, I get ridiculously large files
> > (a 64x64 rendering of the cornell-box gives me a 65MB png, or a 13KB BMP),
> > and after a few iterations (ranging from 10 to 300, so far), I get the
> > error-message:
>
> That's the same thing I get, but I think the answer is just that png output is
> not really supported yet.  Since it renders in passes, the BMP output has been
> altered so it overwrites the image, rather than appending.  Solution?  Use BMP
> for now?
>
>  - Ricky
Thanks Ricky, It is exactly the problem, only bmp format is supported. I thank I
will do in an other way : instead of wrapping the rendering (and changing source
dependant of the plateform), I will rename the file of the previous pass and
create a new one. Code should be in this case plateform independant.

Fidos


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