Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen wrote:

>> Download folder? As far as I know you can't just "install" PovRay by
>> copying a folder to your HDD - you need to install it from a specific
>> download executable archive. This sets up you system to run PovRay. If
>> you just copied a folder called PovRay from somewhere onto your
>> harddrive, the chances (I think - I could be wrong) are good it won't
>> work. Povray's installer needs to setup the registry, copy files to
>> specific locations, etc.
> 
> New features for POV-Ray v3.6 (in the Windows section):
> 
> "Make it possible to run pvengine.exe without pre-defined registry
> settings"
> 
> http://www.povray.org/download/features/

Whoops - my mistake. I stand corrected.
 
> But I don't know if this applies to Machintosh systems as well.
> Anyway, if this is the way he has done it, then I think that it
> can not be expected that POV-Ray will find the include files.

>> Did you download an install executable from http://www.povray.org? Are
>> you using Windows, Linux or Macintosh? The issues are a bit different if
>> you are on Linux instead of Windows.
> ...
> 
> He is using a Macintosh running OS-X, which is a kind of BSD
> (or Linux ?) variant IIRC.

Oh ok. Totally lost there then - never even seen one! 

Regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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