"fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
> "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

Modification done. It works fine. I tested on Windows and Linux Debian 4.0r1 (I
think that on MAC OS X it should be the same because I had the same compilation
error than Ricky).

Fidos

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