POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Question about photons : Re: Question about photons Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:26:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about photons  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 7 Feb 2001 10:58:07
Message: <3a81708f$1@news.povray.org>
> > PS: I'm worried about something other ... I got a paper in my Snailmail,
> > that the electricity
> >     will be down at 8th.Feb. ... The pic won't have finished till then
...
> >     Does the "+C"-Switch work together with "+SPxx" ???
> >     Does it work, when I have startet the original pic with "+SPxx"  ?
> >     I hope ...
>
> It should work fine. Just don't use +SPxx when you continue rendering.
What I
> don't understand is why you used SPxx at all... this is for preview only,
there
> is no reason in using that for the final rendering. POV also will not use
pixel
> which were rendered in the preview process for the final step! ... so if
for
> example your picture is still at 2x2 preview rendering and you see that
you will
> want it at final resolution you better stop it and start again (except you
have a
> HUGE parsing time.)

Is that true ??? I don't believe it ... Why don't they use these Rays again
???
They are already computed, and mostly they are on the right position ...

I used it, because I didn't know, they're not reused and I wanted to
aproximate the final rendering time ...

--
Jan Walzer


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