POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Radiosity and SMPOV : Re: Radiosity and SMPOV Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:23:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity and SMPOV  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 7 May 2006 09:25:06
Message: <e3ks9j$q8m$1@chho.imagico.de>
McHannemann wrote:
> I would like to know if it is possible to create a radiosity file output,
> but not to calculate the whole render through but to stop after the
> radiosity

Note the radiosity calculations are not exclusively performed in the 
pretrace.  It just serves to achieve a better sample distribution and 
better quality results.

But still you can stop the render any time - the radiosity data is 
stored and you can reuse it in later renders using the load_file option.

Christoph

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