Roz wrote in message <3eb1f5f1$1@news.povray.org>...
>Fabien HENON wrote:
>> Bob R has reported a problem when rendering the balcony scene in
the
>> advanced directory using pyvon.
>>
>> I found out that I had the same problem when using pyvon.
><snip>
>> NOTE :
>> There is a glass.inc in /usr/local/share/povray-3.5/include AND in
the
>> balcony directory.
>> Could this be the problem ?
>>
>> Could some of you try the same : Starts a raytrace of balcony.pov
from
>> your home directory or anywhere else but the balcony directory and
tell
>> me if it works.
>
>I get the same behavior as you do:
>
>$ povray -l/usr/share/povray-3.5/scenes/advanced/balcony
>-i/usr/share/povray-3.5/scenes/advanced/balcony/balcony.pov
>
>has the Glass object error in table_stuff.inc. It looks like the
library
>parameter is being referenced at the first level of including because
it
>does correctly find table_stuff.inc (as well as sky.inc) in the
balcony
>directory. Both of those are includes in the balcony.pov scene file.
But
>the passed library path doesn't seem to carry into the included
files.
>In this case balcony.pov includes table_stuff.inc, so far so good.
But
>table_stuff.inc includes glass.inc and this is where it is breaking
>down. So the includes of includes are not being looked for in the
>library path parameter or the order of looking changed. At least
that's
>the behavior I'm seeing here. I have no idea why though.
>
>I wonder if it works for include files that have includes that do not
>name clash with the existing standard includes. It looks like it
works
>correctly in such cases. The balcony.pov scene includes
table_cloth.inc
>before including table_stuff.inc. table_cloth.inc includes cloth.inc
and
>  POV-Ray doesn't choke on that include. So maybe the order of
includes
>gets shuffled at some point or is search differently? Puzzling stuff!
>-Roz

I re-named the local "glass.inc", and "balcony.pov" renders OK using
Pyvon.

It may be a POVray(Linux) problem.

I've been trying out Kdevelop/Qt. I put together a little program[1]
with a dialog that runs POV. No "cd" to any directory, simply calls
povray with a path/filename, and it can't find "sky.inc" when I try
"/usr/..../povray-3.5/.../balcony.pov". On renders that do work, it
puts the *.png in the directory where the executable is run from(that
doesn't seem right, even with my weak little program).
Over a month in Linux, and I can't figure out CWD (Current Working
Directory). <G>

[1] - two days reading, 20 minutes work!! <G> I can't believe it even
works!
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