How do I go about continuing a render I have previously halted?  I was
working on an animation when a storm started so I stopped the render.
When I tried restarting (using current.ini) the render began from
scratch.

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On Thu, 20 May 1999 11:35:50 +1000, Steven Jones <ste### [at] tsncc>
wrote:

>How do I go about continuing a render I have previously halted?

  From the editor window press ALT+C to bring up the Render Settings
dialog box (there's toolbar icon that does the same thing). Enter '+c'
(without the apostrophe marks) in the Command Line box to resume
trace. An alternative is to create your own .ini with these command
line options already in it. The +c option and most others can be
overridden from the Render Settings dialog box.
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The INI equivalent to +C on the command-line is:

 Continue_Trace=On

You should use this in the INI if you have removed (done something else
with) the previosly rendered frames, ie. they no longer exist in the
output path:

 Subset_Start_Frame=45
 Subset_End_Frame=90

Example frame numbers, of course. Also good for partial animations to
check things out, etc.


Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 May 1999 11:35:50 +1000, Steven Jones <ste### [at] tsncc>
> wrote:
> 
> >How do I go about continuing a render I have previously halted?
> 
>   From the editor window press ALT+C to bring up the Render Settings
> dialog box (there's toolbar icon that does the same thing). Enter '+c'
> (without the apostrophe marks) in the Command Line box to resume
> trace. An alternative is to create your own .ini with these command
> line options already in it. The +c option and most others can be
> overridden from the Render Settings dialog box.
> --
> Alan
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> news.povray.org - where POV-Ray enthusiasts from around the world
>                 - get together to exchange ideas and experiences
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