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From: Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia
Subject: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 20 Dec 2000 15:26:52
Message: <3a411423.9516438@news.povray.org>
The  "Pixel Per Second" (PPS) counter of the editor doesn't seem to
work properly with MegaPov, especially with images that take for ever
to render (it remains fixed at 0 PPS). I know that the editor is
(obviously) not meant to work with MegaPov... I was just asking to
myself what could be the reason.


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 20 Dec 2000 16:58:50
Message: <3A412B98.10F948C2@gmx.de>
Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia wrote:
> 
> The  "Pixel Per Second" (PPS) counter of the editor doesn't seem to
> work properly with MegaPov, especially with images that take for ever
> to render (it remains fixed at 0 PPS). I know that the editor is
> (obviously) not meant to work with MegaPov... I was just asking to
> myself what could be the reason.

It sounds perfectly ok to me how you describe it, what's the reason you
think that's wrong?

Of course it would be nice to have decimals for slower renders, but that's
just a limitation.  

Christoph

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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 02:54:26
Message: <3a41b732@news.povray.org>
Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia wrote in message
<3a411423.9516438@news.povray.org>...
>The  "Pixel Per Second" (PPS) counter of the editor doesn't seem to
>work properly with MegaPov, especially with images that take for ever
>to render (it remains fixed at 0 PPS). I know that the editor is
>(obviously) not meant to work with MegaPov... I was just asking to
>myself what could be the reason.

Under POV-Ray for Windows 3.1g, the PPS counter is the PPS rate for the
whole image up to this point.  This means, for example, that if the first
part of your image renders quickly, while the rest renders slowly, the PPS
value will be too high.

With MegaPOV, I've found that the PPS counter does not update very
frequently.

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Mark


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 07:24:27
Message: <3a41f67b@news.povray.org>
I think that it would be nice to have two PPS values, one for the whole
image and another for the last pixel calculated.

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 07:43:13
Message: <3a41fae1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3a41f67b@news.povray.org...
>   I think that it would be nice to have two PPS values, one for the whole
> image and another for the last pixel calculated.
>

Right now, I couldn't agree more. I'm rendering for the IRTC. and am very
unsure as to whether it will finish on time. 17h so far and 12% rendered,
but with different types of objects and media in the image, I can't be
confident that the speed is constant.

BTW I don't know what I've done that is making such demands - multiple
patches and scattering media are slow, but not normally that slow. And this
is on my brand new P3 733 at work.


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From: Geoff Wedig
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 10:37:16
Message: <3a4223ac@news.povray.org>
Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia wrote in message
> <3a411423.9516438@news.povray.org>...
>>The  "Pixel Per Second" (PPS) counter of the editor doesn't seem to
>>work properly with MegaPov, especially with images that take for ever
>>to render (it remains fixed at 0 PPS). I know that the editor is
>>(obviously) not meant to work with MegaPov... I was just asking to
>>myself what could be the reason.

> Under POV-Ray for Windows 3.1g, the PPS counter is the PPS rate for the
> whole image up to this point.  This means, for example, that if the first
> part of your image renders quickly, while the rest renders slowly, the PPS
> value will be too high.

> With MegaPOV, I've found that the PPS counter does not update very
> frequently.

Or even at all.  Sometimes I get the PPS rating, and others I don't, and I
haven't found out why it does it.  And no, it's not the image speed, because
the image can be going at a good clip and still show 0.  However, whenever
it actually displays a number, it's always pretty close to right.

I don't know that a last pixel pps is useful, becasue it would have to be
updating (wasting a lot of resources) an awful lot.  A last line could be,
though.


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From: Andy Cocker
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 14:44:04
Message: <3a425d84@news.povray.org>
Ever so slightly off-topic, but I really miss the way that each pixel was
shown as it rendered in the DOS version 2.2. I used to enjoy watching it's
progression along each line ( sad, aren't I? :-)). Now in windows, it just
updates the screen as each line is rendered.

I know it'd slow things down a fair amount, but I'd really like the option
to reinstate it.

Andy


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 14:48:04
Message: <3A425F7A.2D828B22@pacbell.net>
Andy Cocker wrote:
> 
> Ever so slightly off-topic, but I really miss the way that each pixel was
> shown as it rendered in the DOS version 2.2. I used to enjoy watching it's
> progression along each line ( sad, aren't I? :-)). Now in windows, it just
> updates the screen as each line is rendered.

Actually I rather liked that too. It helped determine where exactly on
screen it took the longest time to render. When you saw this you could
tell exactly which feature you were using slowed down the render times
the mostest.


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From: Mike Wilson
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 15:52:08
Message: <3A426D76.992ABDD9@iastate.edu>
Geoff Wedig wrote:

>
> Or even at all.  Sometimes I get the PPS rating, and others I don't, and I
> haven't found out why it does it.  And no, it's not the image speed, because
> the image can be going at a good clip and still show 0.  However, whenever
> it actually displays a number, it's always pretty close to right.

Could be the anti-aliasing method you're using.  Method 2 always leaves the pps
counter at zero.  (At least for me)

Mike Wilson


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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: windows editor with MegaPov
Date: 21 Dec 2000 16:42:02
Message: <rq934tsf16boplgmkn4482opkq8ucim8e4@4ax.com>
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:25:16 GMT, j.l### [at] liberoit (Jonathan
Rafael Ghiglia) wrote:

>The  "Pixel Per Second" (PPS) counter of the editor doesn't seem to
>work properly with MegaPov, especially with images that take for ever
>to render (it remains fixed at 0 PPS). I know that the editor is
>(obviously) not meant to work with MegaPov... I was just asking to
>myself what could be the reason.

If you're using AA method 2 the counter in MP0.6a stays at 0 pps. I
recall this was a problem in official POV but it was fixed. Maybe MP
is using a slightly older version of the Windows sources.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg


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