Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> On 01.02.11 20:26, gregjohn wrote:
> > I changed something during an animation and it povray bombed out due to a syntax
> > error I introduced. I wanted to resume the rendering at the frame I was at, but
> > I looked at the message stream and this info was missing.  It was there in 3.5.
> > It's one of the more valuable pieces of info spit out in the message stream, for
> > precisely this reason.
>
> Why not look at the output images? You can very easily tell where it stopped
> because the image either won't be there, or the creation date will be different.
>
>  Thorsten


It's very useful images that prior versions of povray were happy to share. In
fact of all the text that is spit out, I could imagine it's the most useful. To
ask why, the user will have open the povray application right in front of them.
To go deduce what was the last image by going to find filenames, that requires
going to a different application (a file manager) and digging down through
several directories to get to your images, then doing some deduction, probably
hitting date sort, etc. Whereas in the prior versions you just looked at the
message stream.  In my workflow, I might not ever have to go to the file manager
app between anims, as I just change a few characters in the TMPGEnc application,
and compile the MPEG there.

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