--- ray/doc/man/man1/rad.1 2008/12/18 23:26:57 1.8 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rad.1 2010/05/18 00:32:23 1.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rad.1,v 1.8 2008/12/18 23:26:57 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rad.1,v 1.9 2010/05/18 00:32:23 greg Exp $" .TH RAD 1 2/1/99 RADIANCE .SH NAME rad - render a RADIANCE scene @@ -579,6 +579,10 @@ rad \-V \-v Zl \-n \-s sample.rif > plan.vf # make a p rad \-t sample.rif # update files after minor change to input .br rad \-s sample.rif & # execute silently in the background +.br +rad \-N 2 sample.rif # render views using two parallel rpict calls +.br +rad \-N 4 -v 1 sample.rif # render first view with four rpiece calls .PP If we decide that the default values .I rad @@ -640,6 +644,17 @@ $(PICTURE)_$(view).unf Unfinished output of .SH AUTHOR Greg Ward .SH BUGS +You cannot run more than one +.I rad +process at a time on the same input file, +as the second process will attempt to recover the output files +of the first process, damaging the results. +The exceptions to this are running interactively via the +.I \-o +option, or rendering different views using the +.I \-v +option. +.PP Incremental building of octrees is not supported as it would add considerable complexity to .I rad. @@ -678,4 +693,5 @@ problematic on systems that don't distinguish case in .SH "SEE ALSO" glrad(1), make(1), mkillum(1), objview(1), oconv(1), pfilt(1), raddepend(1), ranimate(1), -rholo(1), rpict(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1), touch(1), vgaimage(1), ximage(1) +rholo(1), rpict(1), rpiece(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1), +touch(1), vgaimage(1), ximage(1)