Hi Cristoph (or anyone else able to help),

I'm having problems getting Sim-Pov to run on my machine. It's been so long since I
ran POV
from the command-line that many of the problems I'm having may be down to me messing
up :-)

Firstly, I simply cannot get POV to show me the rendering in progress.. the best I can
get is
ASCII art in the Command window. I have tried +D, +D0, +DT, +D0...9T and +DA...ZT.  I
should
point out that I am using XP Home. Is there a problem with POV opening up a window
perhaps?

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
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.5 Unix (.CYGWIN_NT-4.0.gcc)
  This is an unofficial version (Sim-POV 0.1.0) compiled by:
   Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
   The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version.
Copyright 1991-2002 POV-Ray Team(tm)
Possible Environment Error: Could not open INI file '"c:\program files\pov-ray f
or windows v3.5\renderer\povray.ini"'.
?Warning: Could not find '"c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\renderer\po
vray.ini"' as specified in POVINI environment.

?Possible INI File Error: Could not open INI file '/usr/local/etc/povray.ini'.
?Parsing Options
  Input file: blocks.pov (compatible to version 3.5)
  Remove bounds........On  Split unions........Off
  Library paths: c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\include
    c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\scenes
    c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\renderer
Output Options
  Image resolution 160 by 120 (rows 1 to 120, columns 1 to 160).
  Output file: D:\My Stuff\POVimages\.tga, 24 bpp (system format)
  Graphic display......On  (type: 0, palette: 3, gamma:  2.2)
  Mosaic preview......Off
  Continued trace.....Off  Allow interruption...On  Pause when done......On
  Verbose messages.....On
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 25
  Light Buffer.........On  Vista Buffer.........On  Draw Vista Buffer...Off
  Antialiasing.........On  (Method 1, Threshold 0.100, Depth 3, Jitter 1.00)
Animation Options
  Initial Frame..       1  Final Frame....      25
  Initial Clock..   0.000  Final Clock....   1.000
  Cyclic Animation....Off  Field render........Off  Odd lines/frames....Off
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console.........Off
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On


Parsing..................
Calculating Mechanics Simulation... Time=0.0332s (100 percent)
Saved simulation data to file blocks1.dat
Generating Objects....File: c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\include/me
chsim.inc  Line: 369
    #if (Write_File)

?      #fclose FILE

?    #end

?

?  } <----ERROR

?Parse Error: Expected 'object', } found instead
?
C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\bin>

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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?
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?

// -------------------------
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.

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

I hope someone can help me with this, and that I'm not just being a complete idiot.

Thanks,

Andy Cocker

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