POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : materials rendering without killing the current render : Re: materials rendering without killing the current render Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:12:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: materials rendering without killing the current render  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 31 Mar 2000 12:43:19
Message: <38e4e3b7$1@news.povray.org>
> There is a way to work around this outside of Moray. You can run more than
> one instance of POV-Ray if you go to the options menu in the POV-Ray
editor
> and uncheck the option for "keep single instance". You could then do your
> actual render directly with in POV-Ray itself, then use Moray to start
> another render of your new scene development or for such things as
rendering
> your materials thumbnails. Doing it this way may cause Moray to be
sluggish
> or even unresponsive at times, and the render times in POV-Ray will surely
> suffer too, but if this is what you want to do it is not impossible to do
> so.
hmm .. and if you use NT on a dual-processor machine may be the two
instances are distributed ???

would be a nice question ... has someone tried ???


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