distributed rendering

[Andreas Zehender]

Hi!

On Monday, 15. September 2003 23:50, Christoph Fabianek wrote:
> > > And the biggest problem I have is with displaying the distributed
> > > rendered image in the 'Render Window'. Currently the image is rendered
> > > with nspovray which writes the composed result to stdout via 'cat
> > > result.tga'. The problem I encounter is that it shows the image bottom
> > > up.
> >
> > Does that mean the image is not displayed while rendering? And that means
> > no progress information is shown?
>
> No - currently you don't see an image while it is rendered and there is no
> progress information. But if you click the "Povray Output..." button you
> will see the output of nspovray while it sends the individual parts to
> various servers and downloads the result.

Then i'd like to postpone the distributed rendering interface to the next 
version.
I have plans for a renderer plugin framework, that would allow a much cleaner 
support for external renderer tools.

Andreas

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 Andreas Zehender
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