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From: Maurice
Subject: .RCA files
Date: 5 Feb 2005 05:37:01
Message: <4204a1cd$1@news.povray.org>
Sometimes I find a file with the extension .rca after rendering.

Anybody know what the rca file is for?

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Maurice


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: .RCA files
Date: 5 Feb 2005 05:45:02
Message: <cu2815$48f$1@chho.imagico.de>
Maurice wrote:
> Sometimes I find a file with the extension .rca after rendering.

Only when you interrupt a render.

> Anybody know what the rca file is for?
> 

That's the radiosity sample cache, it is always written during a render 
using radiosity and is deleted when the render is finished.

Christoph

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From: Maurice
Subject: Re: .RCA files
Date: 5 Feb 2005 13:47:11
Message: <420514af$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Maurice wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes I find a file with the extension .rca after rendering.
> 
> 
> Only when you interrupt a render.
> 
>> Anybody know what the rca file is for?
>>
> 
> That's the radiosity sample cache, it is always written during a render 
> using radiosity and is deleted when the render is finished.
> 
> Christoph
> 

Thanks, I suspected radiosity to be involved. Didn't make the link to 
interupted renders though.

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