John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> For longer length animations, I sometimes have used separate .ini files,
> each one written to render half a second (12 frames) of the same
> animation.  I then pass out the .INI files to different rendering boxes,
> all of them writing the files in the same network drive directory.
>
> > I only would have one feature request regarding animations: Please add a
> > "DoNotRenderAgain"-Option or so such that frames are only rendered when the
> > output file doesn't already exist.
>
> I think POV-Ray already runs this way.  I've done more than a few
> animation renders, and the frames that already have a complete file
> don't get re-rendered.  I think the option "AlwaysRender" is more needful.

Maybe it depends on the OS and filesystem? I'm running 3.6 on Windows Vista, and
the images definitely get rerendered when you start the .ini file again.

Btw at the moment I'm using DOS-batch files to overcome this. The batch file
looks for an image that is missing and then starts Povray, rendering only that
image. I can run several instances of that batch file at a time, it works quite
fine. It's just quite annoying to have the splashscreen pop up every time Povray
starts again...

Anyway, it'd be nice to have options to tell Povray whether existing image files
should never be rerendered or always be rerendered.

Cheers,
Burkhard

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