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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Preview settings ignored
Date: 15 Sep 2016 18:44:28
Message: <57db244c$1@news.povray.org>
I'm not sure what's going on, but I set these lines in the INI file:

	Preview_Start_Size=32
	Preview_End_Size=16

but it starts rendering blocks of 82x82 pixels, then 41x41 pixels, then 
~20x20 pixels (it varies by zero or one pixel in either direction), then 
~10x10 pixels (again it varies betwen 9 and 11).

Afterward, it started over at 32x32 pixels, and then 16x16 pixels.

Why does it need to do so many passes when I only specified two?


Mike


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Preview settings ignored
Date: 15 Sep 2016 20:08:16
Message: <57db37f0@news.povray.org>
Am 16.09.2016 um 00:44 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> I'm not sure what's going on, but I set these lines in the INI file:
> 
>     Preview_Start_Size=32
>     Preview_End_Size=16
> 
> but it starts rendering blocks of 82x82 pixels, then 41x41 pixels, then
> ~20x20 pixels (it varies by zero or one pixel in either direction), then
> ~10x10 pixels (again it varies betwen 9 and 11).
> 
> Afterward, it started over at 32x32 pixels, and then 16x16 pixels.
> 
> Why does it need to do so many passes when I only specified two?

Are you perhaps using radiosity?

That feature needs to do a few passes with increasing resolution before
the actual main render. Looks like mosaic preview but isn't.


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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Re: Preview settings ignored
Date: 15 Sep 2016 22:49:18
Message: <57db5dae$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/15/2016 8:08 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 16.09.2016 um 00:44 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> I'm not sure what's going on, but I set these lines in the INI file:
>>
>>      Preview_Start_Size=32
>>      Preview_End_Size=16
>>
>> but it starts rendering blocks of 82x82 pixels, then 41x41 pixels, then
>> ~20x20 pixels (it varies by zero or one pixel in either direction), then
>> ~10x10 pixels (again it varies betwen 9 and 11).
>>
>> Afterward, it started over at 32x32 pixels, and then 16x16 pixels.
>>
>> Why does it need to do so many passes when I only specified two?
>
> Are you perhaps using radiosity?
>
> That feature needs to do a few passes with increasing resolution before
> the actual main render. Looks like mosaic preview but isn't.
>

That's what it was. Sorry.


Mike


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