POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.scene-files : Render stuck at 99% : Re: Render stuck at 99% Server Time
17 May 2024 06:01:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render stuck at 99%  
From: clipka
Date: 13 Nov 2013 04:27:10
Message: <528345ee$1@news.povray.org>
Am 13.11.2013 09:59, schrieb posfan12:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 13.11.2013 05:06, schrieb posfan12:
>>> I've been waiting nearly an hour for my render to get form 99% to 100% when the
>>> first 99% proceeded rather quickly.
>>>
>>> Anyone else experience this in POV 3.7 final?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you will find the same behaviour with the 3.7 RCs. The
>> statue in the small park seems to be rather difficult to render,
>> especially at a max_trace_level of 50.
>>
>> (As a side note, two of the trees in that park seem to be floating above
>> the ground.)
>
> Is that where the renderer is getting stuck? I have turned off all reflection
> and translucency AFAIK. I don't see why this is happening.

I used a debug version of POV-Ray and a debugger to find the culprit 
(it's hard to spot on such a large render by mere visual inspection of 
the preview), so I know that there /is/ a lot of reflecting and 
refracting going on there.


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