Well my main issue is the continue.

After rendering x amount of lines, then stopping, exiting, restarting povray
and continuing the render it starts at the very top again even though I
specify +c.

I don't if radiosity has anything to do with that problem.

Why won't my render continue where it left off?
Why does it start at the top again even though it had previously completed
80 lines or so?  I am using +c


"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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>
>
> Warp wrote:
> >
> >   If this is so in 3.5 then it has changed since 3.1. The idea of that
.rca
> > file is precisely to be able to continue interrupted renders.
> >   AFAIK if you render half-image in one computer and then copy the pov
files,
> > the partial image *and* the .rca-file to another computer and continue
> > rendering there (with +c), the result should be the same is if you had
> > rendered the whole image in one run.
> >
>
> 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 usual way to go is to use load_file and save_file plus 'always_sample
> off' if you want to render in several parts, but i remember Gilles often
> renders scenes in parts with just '+sr' and '+er' and without pretrace and
> this apparently seems to work quite well too.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
> things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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