Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Secondly, the supplied  scene files do not render. Here's the message window:
> 
> C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\bin>povray simpov.ini +h120 +w160 +v +
> D +kff25
> [...]

I don't know your simpov.ini but such errors in mechsim.inc usually happen
if there are no objects in the simulation (i probably should add a test
for that in the macros).  You already mentioned you did not render it as a
still before so this is probably the reason.

> 
> As you can see, I tried to SET the povray.ini variable, but I don't even know if
that's
> something I needed to do.
> Also, this line ?Possible INI File Error: Could not open INI file
'/usr/local/etc/povray.ini'.
> is looking for POVRAY.INI on a Linux directory structure?

The unix version of POV-Ray has a certain search order for the main ini
file:

1) according to POVINI environment variable
2) ./povray.ini
3) $HOME/.povrayrc
4) SYSCONFDIR/povray.ini

so in your case none of the first three is found so it expects it in
'/usr/local/etc/povray.ini'.

> And this line Generating Objects....File: c:\program files\pov-ray for windows
v3.5\include/me
> chsim.inc  Line: 369 has a forward slash in it.. is this wrong?

No, forward and backward slashes will occur mixed in a lot of cases. 

> // -------------------------
> Other little problems I'm having:
> I'm using Output_File_Name=D:\My Stuff\POVimages\ in my INI file, yet POV is saving
the files
> as .tga, when I expect it to save it as MyFile.tga (ie, there *is no* filename, just
the
> extension). This works fine in my v3.5 setup.

I don't know about this one, have you tried using forward slashes in the
path?

> Lastly, Allow_Interruption (+X) doesn't appear to be working.

Interrupting trace with Ctrl-C works fine here.

Christoph

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