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From: McHannemann
Subject: Radiosity and SMPOV
Date: 7 May 2006 07:35:00
Message: <web.445ddae181ac760074d94b510@news.povray.org>

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
is calculated before the final run with the Antialising on (11692*8168),
so that I can sent it to SMPOV for rendering out quicker at the end,

Regards,

Thor

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Radiosity and SMPOV
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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