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Re: Excellent rendering...
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Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:30:59 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> skrev i meddelandet
news:qrdbs67sac0.fsf@nereids.uio.no...
> "Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMOVEebox.tninet.se> writes:
> 
> >  I know (?) there are ways to interrupt a rendering, and continue
> >  later, but haven't taken the time to find out how-to yet.
> 
> 
> If you are able to grab the portion which has been rendered (i.e. if
> you render to a file format which is readable in truncated form), then
> I believe that it is quite easy.  You can render only the lower part
> of the scene which you are missing, and then use an image processing
> program to concatenate the two parts.

I dug a bit deeper into the POV manuals, and found it! The '+c' rendering
option can be used to continue a rendering that has previously been stopped.
No image processing necessary.

Also found the 'Start_line' and 'End_line' options, which can be used in the
way you described. This can also be used to render different parts of a
picture on different computers (if you have access to more than one...).

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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(...) Yes, I agree. When fiddling with parameters, I usually render only a small portion of the scene at the time, to see what effects the changes have. Only when I feel fairly confident that the final image is what I want, I try to render all of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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