"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3DF62441.5CB7F436@gmx.de...
> 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.

Agreed.

>
> 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'.

Ah.. OK.

> > 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?

No, but I shall test it.

> > Lastly, Allow_Interruption (+X) doesn't appear to be working.
>
> Interrupting trace with Ctrl-C works fine here.

Yes, that's what I've been using, but I wasn't sure whether that was closing down POV
correctly and freeing up memory.

Thanks for your prompt replies.. and for Sim-POV.

All the best,

Andy Cocker

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