When rendering an image with Radiosity, it would be beneficial to me
(strangely enough) if I could save the image prior to the final trace. Is
there a way to halt rendering and simply save a given pretrace render?
- How
From: Alain
Subject: Re: Halting Pretrace Render (and Saving the Image)?
Date: 4 Oct 2005 11:20:42
Message: <43429dca$1@news.povray.org>
How Camp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-10-04 08:13:
> When rendering an image with Radiosity, it would be beneficial to me> (strangely enough) if I could save the image prior to the final trace. Is> there a way to halt rendering and simply save a given pretrace render?> > - How> > >
Try adding save_file "file_name" in the radiosity block. This will save the data to
disk. That's
what is used in two pass renders.
The pretrace image is NOT saved to disk. You can do a screen capture (printn screen
key) and save
using just about any graphics application.
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Alain
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Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Try adding save_file "file_name" in the radiosity block.> This will save the data to disk.> The pretrace image is NOT saved to disk.
Right, but it's the image I'm interested in.
> You can do a screen capture (printn screen key) and save> using just about any graphics application.
I'm hoping for a way to capture the image after it's completed - it's tough
to grab the screenshot at just the right time (before the final render
begins) and to do this manually for multiple images.
Thanks anyway.
From: Skip Talbot
Subject: Re: Halting Pretrace Render (and Saving the Image)?
Date: 5 Oct 2005 02:38:17
Message: <434374d9$1@news.povray.org>
You could set the antialias settings to the max to stall the rendering
of the final pass. I don't know how to alleviate you of doing this
manually for multiple images though.
Skip
Skip Talbot <Ski### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> You could set the antialias settings to the max to stall the rendering> of the final pass.
Thanks, Skip. I actually tried this, and it works reasonably well for a
single image. Perhaps I can set up an external script to take successive
screenshots for a set of images.
Hmm, I don't suppose it's possible to get povray to execute a shell command
just prior to the final trace...? :) Obviously not, or somebody would
have pointed this out already.
- How (Stumped)
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