#POV Stop Start
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My question is there any way of stoping when you need to use the computer to do
some work and re-starting where you left off, i use
the office PC a 486/33 but some ray take a long time in 1024X768.
Do you know if there is a way of showing the TGA files, do i need
one of there new true colour cards with 16.7 million colours. I
must say POV is the best raytracer i have seen….
chow chow Drew…73/51
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If you interrupt a trace, you can continue it by using the
same command line, and adding +c (for continue). If you intend to
do this, you should avoid using a large buffer (no more than +b20
or so), because you lose whatever is in the buffer when you break
out.
If you have (or get) a true color board, you can view the TGA
files. Otherwise you have to convert to GIF first.
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Colin, If you use the +x switch on the commandline, in your povray.def file, or
the POVRAYOPT= setting, you can interrupt a trace mid-stream. The file can
then be started again with the +c switch. It's all in the docs.
The .tga file must be converted to a .gif (again, see the .docs) unless you
have a Hicolor DAC video card (or a 24 bit "fullcolor" card, of course). If
you've got a hicolor chip, you can also see the preview screen in hicolor.
There are viewing programs that will attempt to map 24 bit image to 256 colors,
but they don't work well. You really need to use a converter first.
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