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From: clipka
Date: 31 Jul 2013 04:28:05
Message: <51f8ca95$1@news.povray.org>

Am 31.07.2013 09:46, schrieb scott:
> Been looking for 20 mins now through the source and can't find it!

That would be the file-format-specific code in source/base/image, such 
as png.cpp, jpeg.cpp, openexr.cpp, etc. (more precisely, the Write() 
functions defined therein...

> What
> I want to do is modify the output filename to attach the current date
> and time automatically. This way whilst I'm developing a scene it will
> automatically keep all test renders.

... but what you're probably /really/ looking for is the place where the 
output file /name/ is determined. That would be 
ImageProcessing::GetOutputFilename() in source/backend/imageprocessing.cpp.

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