POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Radiosity status : Re: Radiosity status Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:25:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity status  
From: nemesis
Date: 27 Dec 2008 10:15:00
Message: <web.4956462da9104c11180057960@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > OTOH, I'm aware of the locking issues...
>
> What locking issues? There are no locking issues :) They're all sorted out.

Hmm, but you guys had quite some fun a while back with this discussion. ;)

> > In the current implementation, second and later calculations are not stored,
> > they just load the original calculations and calculate whatever is needed anew
> > without ever adding up and storing to the original radiosity file.  Even if
> > your 3rd frame of animation would benefit from them...
>
> Heh - you ever tried? I must confess I didn't myself, but from what I see in the
> code, using both "load_file" and "save_file" in the radiosity block should do
> the trick. specifying "save_file" just causes the whole radiosity tree to be
> dumped to file after rendering a frame, and doesn't care whether the samples
> were loaded from file already or added during this frame.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

One of those magic trickery people shout about pov's rad! :P


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