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26 Apr 2024 04:45:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Another difference and perhaps crash (abyss.pov)  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 26 Apr 2005 13:25:30
Message: <426e798a$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   I noticed yesterday that if you render scenes\advanced\abyss.pov
> there's a very notable difference in the background brightness. This
> can't be explained by gamma since the other objects in the scene
> are basically ok. The scene (when rendered with 3.6) has a rather
> bright cyan background, but when rendered with 3.7 the background
> is almost (or totally) black.
>   Could this perhaps be related to media?

This is actually the same problem (related to hollow) as reported in
'hollow1.pov oddities'. We are still working on fixing that.

>   I tried investigating it more today but for some odd reason I can't
> render it anymore with 3.7beta2: It keeps crashing every time I try.

This is caused by the trace statement; it's causing access to some data used
by blobs that currently isn't set up until the parse finishes.

The latter problem is fixed, the former one will be shortly I hope.

thanks,

-- Chris


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