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From: William F Pokorny
Date: 1 Mar 2025 07:13:33
Message: <67c2f9ed@news.povray.org>

On 2/28/25 21:01, William F Pokorny wrote:
> In a few hours of testing I picked up a handful of other small details 
> which I've added to my documentation,

A few years ago Thomas picked up an issue with continued renders and 
radiosity (*). I wanted to add an issues note to my documentation for 
that so I was searching the newsgroups.

I stumbled across this comment by Christoph Hormann from October of 2001 
in a thread about continuing radiosity renders:

"At least in WinPov, the .rca gets deleted when you press 'stop'. The 
only way to maintain it is to actually kill povray while rendering. ;-)"

The .rca-file being the .pov-state filename at the time.

I don't run windows so I cannot test if this is still true. FWIW.

Bill P.

(*) - You need to use save and load radiosity samples to avoid 
radiosity{} discontinuities when continuing or setting up to continue 
renders of scenes using radiosity{}.

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