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From: Mr
Subject: Re: How do I Rerun or Where is the Stop/Start Render?
Date: 15 Mar 2025 10:10:00
Message: <web.67d589805487c66e1b498ec86830a892@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 2/28/25 21:01, William F Pokorny wrote:
> > In a few hours of testing I picked up a handful of other small details
> > which I've added to my documentation,
>
> A few years ago Thomas picked up an issue with continued renders and
> radiosity (*). I wanted to add an issues note to my documentation for
> that so I was searching the newsgroups.
>
> I stumbled across this comment by Christoph Hormann from October of 2001
> in a thread about continuing radiosity renders:
>
> "At least in WinPov, the .rca gets deleted when you press 'stop'. The
> only way to maintain it is to actually kill povray while rendering. ;-)"
>
> The .rca-file being the .pov-state filename at the time.
>
> I don't run windows so I cannot test if this is still true. FWIW.
>
> Bill P.
>
> (*) - You need to use save and load radiosity samples to avoid
> radiosity{} discontinuities when continuing or setting up to continue
> renders of scenes using radiosity{}.

From my poor memory, Last time I used it, I think it worked also with straight
stopping, but this was before the povwin code got clearly split and optional.The
issue I had met with radiosity was that some buckets of the image probably got
different rays averaged together so they created small artifact, but the
continue feature could still be considered usable because post render edit would
easily solve those.


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