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2 Sep 2024 06:15:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Having more trouble with Post Process Filters  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 2 May 2000 16:20:27
Message: <390f388b$1@news.povray.org>
Glen Berry <7no### [at] ezwvcom> wrote...
> Thanks for explaining that for me. I have now rendered some of the new
> demo scenes sucessfully, but each time I render a scene, I have a
> ".tpn" file left in the same directory as my output image. It was my
> understanding that ".tpn" files are temporary, and should be
> automatically deleted after the render is finished.
>
> For the record, I am using a DJGPP compile, and running it under
> WIN95. My output format of choice is ".PNG" - I haven't tried yet to
> see if the problem is isolated to PNG output only, but I'll let you
> know later if it also happens with TGA output.

There is a bug with POV's PNG code, which causes this problem in post
processing.  It will be fixed when we get around to releasing version 0.5.
Until then, you'll have to use a different file format.  (And on the Mac,
Pict is broken in 0.4, too.)

-Nathan


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