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2 Sep 2024 06:17:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saving and Re-Using Radiosity in Mega-POV?  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 21 Apr 2000 07:34:27
Message: <39003cc3@news.povray.org>
GrimDude <vos### [at] yahoocom> wrote...
> > If you had the radiosity disk cache turned on ...
>
> Now I'm really confused. How do you turn the radiosity disk cache on?
>
> Apparently, the help file isn't clear, or I need to read it from beginning
> to end...
>

I guess it is always on.  POV always writes radiosity data to a temporary
file called <scene_name>.RCA.

Internally, there's a variable called
"opts.Radiosity_File_SaveWhileRendering", but for some reason it is always
set to true.

-Nathan


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