Slime <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I was referring to. Without a save_file and load_file, I
> would be surprised if the horizontal line could be avoided, since the second
> time through, POV-Ray can't have the radiosity data from the first time
> through.

  Incorrect. Interrupted rendering and radiosity was never a problem with
POV-Ray. Haven't you noticed how POV-Ray saves the radiosity data in a file
during rendering precisely for the purpose of supporting interrupted renders?

  The save_file and load_file features were not innovations. They simply
gave more user control to the file which POV-Ray was already creating.

> Of course, it *works*, in that the image continues to render from where it
> left off, but the results can be bad.

  They were bad only if you deleted the temporary radiosity file POV-Ray
had created. Else it was just ok.

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