Well I was told (and tested to prove to myself) that the load and save are
needed for partial renders to keep the continued render "correct."  Without
the load and save the render changes each time you continue and causes
coloration/brightness changes to surfaces.   With the save and load those
things don't happen.

The problem with the image continuing where it left off last time is my main
issue.   For some reason when I continue this render it starts over (as
though I wasn't using the +c switch)  even though I am using the +c switch.


"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3bcde07c@news.povray.org...
>   AFAIK the save_file and load_file are used only for whole renders. That
is,
> if you render the whole image, then you get a radiosity file which you can
> reuse if you render again.
>   As for interrupted renders, there's no need for save_file and load_file
as
> POV-Ray does this automatically (it's that .rca file which appears when
you
> render with radiosity and which disappears if you let it render through
the
> end).
>   Or at least this is how it worked in 3.1. I haven't tested if it works
> right with 3.5.
>
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