Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 25/04/2011 00:11, mont29 nous fit lire :

> > and its pov render script) to get partial rendered pictures, to give the user
> > something else than a black screen during whole render ?
> >
> > For example, would it be possible for pov ray to periodically write what has
> > already been rendered in the output file, instead of only creating and writing
> > this one once render is completed ?
>
> The image format (whatever could it be with +F...) in 3.7 is generated
> only at the very end of the rendering process.



> Nevertheless, if you use the intermediate file storage (which slow down
> the render process if it is quick), which is used for big resolution (as
> it is triggered by default for 128 MB of raw buffer)
> ( see http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Reference_Section_1
> +MI option), you could get some data. I guess I would have to document
> that file (fixing it forever... )



format (like png, tga, etc.)? Anyway, a 800*600 is about 1.5Mb (or 2Mb with


> You could instead use a +D switch to open a preview window. That's
> assume of course that the DISPLAY setting of X11 has been set for the
> relevant systems (unix-like).





Anyway, thanks very much for your answers :)

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