just remeber, that after you have twaeked em up for a large scene, you may
want to turn em back down again, after all more ram for POVray is allways a
good idea :)

Rick

"michael mccue" <mik### [at] harmoniccyclecom> wrote in message
news:3862f81b@news.povray.org...
> Hi Lutz,
>  Sorry to ask stupid questions but I am very new to this and I have very
> little feel for how the programs work when working properly. Thanks for
> taking the time to explain.
> Best Wishes,
> mike
>
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> Lutz Kretzschmar <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote in message
> news:386### [at] 194174214110...
> > Hi michael mccue, you recently wrote in email:
> >
> > > What should I assign for vertcal and horizontal settings?
> > I think what you mean is the memory for the vertex list and for the
> > edge list. Moray stores vertices (points) and edges (connection
> > information) of the wireframes. For speed these are kept contiguous in
> > memory.
> >
> > > The default figures of 8000 Kb and 4500 Kb seem low with the 256 Mb
> > > available but maybe I am missing something.
> > The numbers are not directly related to available or installed memory.
> > As long as the indicators in the status bar (V:xxxx yy% and E:zzzz
> > ww%) are not red and are below 90%, you're fine. For larger scenes,
> > you may need to increase these numbers until the indicators are no
> > longer red. Moray will still run fine even if they are red, but parts
> > of the wireframe will be missing, since there is not enough memory to
> > store all vertices and edges.
> > It is a bad idea to make these lists larger than they need to be,
> > since anything that is not used is wasted (but allocated) memory which
> > POV-Ray could be utilizing to render the scene.
> >
> > - Lutz
> >   email : lut### [at] stmuccom
> >   Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray
>
>

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