"MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> Hello Lennie,
>
> some additional remarks.
>
> 1. Since you mentioned a start and a stop button, I assume you're using the
> windows version. In this case you don't need an ini-file. Simply type +c into
> the command line field (the one below the show-, ini- and sel-run-button) and
> better do so for the second and all subsequent runs and not for the first, as
> John suggested.
>
> 2. The radiosity settings you gave, have to be specified within the pov-file
> within the global_settings. The inclusion of "rad_def.inc" seems to be redundant
> here, since it is not used. The definitions of p_start and p_end_final are fine,
> but produce long rendering times for the radiosity
> step.
>
> 3. The parsing of the scene is not part of the "continue"-option. Every time you
> you restart a Rendering with +c the whole scene will be parsed again.
>
> 4. For photons it is the best to save them during the first render, and load
> them in subsequent ones.
>
> 5. radiosity can be saved with the first run, but you need other global settings
> to load them. And an ini-file is needed in this case.
>
> 6. radiosity is recalculated with every retrace, but only the part which is not
> rendered already.
>
> 7. The continue-option is still a bit buggy. Having a multi-core machine you are
> only save if you stop the rendering when the rendered area is "closed" in a way.
> That means, if you use the default render pattern, all blocks
> left and above the last rendered block must be rendered. If one is missing, the
> resume option will forget and not render it.
> See
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5239bc36%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=390778&toff=50
>
> for an example.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael

Fantastic! Michael, and you others, thank you! This is all much clearer to me
now. I'm not just new to POV-Ray, but to 3D rendering overall. Trying out
different software and renderers at the moment, and I must say POV-Ray gives
really nice, characteristic, results.

Regards,

Lennie

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