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Opened by Christoph Lipka - 2013-02-01
Last edited by William F Pokorny - 2016-10-28
Opened by Christoph Lipka - 2013-02-01
Last edited by William F Pokorny - 2016-10-28
FS#270 - render abort-continue (+C) sometimes skips blocks
When aborting a render when there are unfinished blocks among finished ones, under certain conditions some of those blocks are skipped when continuing the render later.
Closed by William F Pokorny
Friday, 28 October 2016, 14:39 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing:
Friday, 28 October 2016, 14:39 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing:
Related discussion from Feb 2016:
http://news.povray.org/povray.bu
greports/thread/%3C56b181dc@news.povray.
org%3E/
Potentially still a problem with 3.7.0 per Christoph comments, but fixed in 3.7.1 in that final output image file is OK. Mike Horvath was running 3.7.0.
fixed with change #5771
According to recent discussions on news://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test, the problem still persists in some situations.
The remaining issues turned out to be entirely unrelated to the root cause eliminated with #5771.
What happens is that when a radiosity render is restarted, the pretrace for the missing blocks is done again; during the early stages of this pretrace, the "pixels" may be far larger than the render blocks, and may overpaint some already rendered blocks.
Change #6086 provides a hotfix that limits the problem to the render preview. The generated image files will be fine.