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6 Oct 2024 01:39:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Alternate render window / buffer  
From: Mr
Date: 20 Aug 2009 17:05:00
Message: <web.4a8db9b79d2b430772869e8c0@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> "Mr" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.4a81634c41933176e3f0b2880@news.povray.org...
> > Is there in Povwin, the equivalent of what the j key does in Blender after
> > rendering, switching between two render buffers to compare the last
> > rendered
> > file to the previous one, or any comparable feature to easily compare the
> > last
> > two rendered images?
> >
>
>
> Not as-such. By default an image takes the name of the file, so successive
> renders overwrite the image file. I think that the simplest way of getting
> something similar is to use the command-line box at the top of the editor
> screen to specify non-default file names. For example use +oMyFile1.bmp for
> the first image and increment the number to generate successive images that
> you wish to keep. Then you can open any two of the images that you've kept
> side-by-side from file manager.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.

The latest Blend2pov now also allows to point at the 3.7 beta so I can use the
Blender alternate buffer for it too.


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