"marciano" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.46a7ccfedf6f61bc42ce5db10@news.povray.org...
> Hello.
> I've just downloaded POV-Ray.
> From 'Getting started'
> "|Starting POV-Ray rendering any scene file is as simple as opening the 
> file
> via the File menu. Then go to the Render menu and start rendering. By
> default POV-Ray will write an image to disk to the same folder as the 
> scene
> file you rendered|"
>
> I file-open cylinder1.pov and go to Render menu -> all options are light
> grey  -> cannot render
> Then I try' Window-Render queue' and 'Add files to queue'
> 'Add POV-Ray text file(s) to render queue' is the title of the popup 
> window.
> Cannot select any text file in Templates directory, all are ligth gray.
> I do could add box.pov file to Render Queue
> Perform "Start Render Queue"  -> box.pov text content is displayed
> No render image is generated.
>
> How it is supose to render any file?
>
> I've set Render engine for G4, unmarked "allow rendering .pov files only"
>
> Thank you in advance
>

Hi Marciano,

Somehow your posting seems to have become attached to the end of Lhainel's 
'Getting Started' thread in the newsgroup. I'm guessing you did a 'Reply 
Group' instead of a 'New Post'. As a consequence you'll find that a lot less 
people will have read your question because people tend not to pay so much 
attention to old threads.

To get to the bottom of your problem it would be handy to indicate which 
version of POV-Ray you downloaded. There is a beta-test version 3.7 on the 
go at the moment, but if you're new to POV-Ray you should be running the 
latest established 3.6 version. It would also be handy to know what platform 
you're on. I would guess it's one of the Windows operating systems. Where 
people have reported on this news group having menu options greyed out in 
the past I think that it has largely resulted from problems with the 
installation leaving environment variables that don't correctly point to 
required directories.

If the installation worked ok, then you should be able to open POV-Ray and 
select the 'Render' menu option 'Run demo' and it should render an image in 
a pop-up window on the screen, writing information about the work that it's 
done into the Messages tab in the main window.

Loading a file like cylinder1.pov into the Windows version of POV-Ray should 
display it's contents (in this case a camera setting and a few simple 
objects). You should then be able to select 'Render', 'Start rendering' or 
hit the 'Run' icon which is a green circle containing a representation of a 
running man. Once again this should pop-up a window and render the image 
into it while reporting on progress into the Messages tab.

Hope this helps. If not I'd recommend starting a new thread with a bit more 
detail about platform, version, etc.

Regards,
Chris B.

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