Warp wrote:
> 
>   If this is so in 3.5 then it has changed since 3.1. The idea of that .rca
> file is precisely to be able to continue interrupted renders.
>   AFAIK if you render half-image in one computer and then copy the pov files,
> the partial image *and* the .rca-file to another computer and continue
> rendering there (with +c), the result should be the same is if you had
> rendered the whole image in one run.
> 

At least in WinPov, the .rca gets deleted when you press 'stop'.  The only
way to maintain it is to actually kill povray while rendering. ;-)

The usual way to go is to use load_file and save_file plus 'always_sample
off' if you want to render in several parts, but i remember Gilles often
renders scenes in parts with just '+sr' and '+er' and without pretrace and
this apparently seems to work quite well too.

Christoph

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