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I'm a complete newbie when it comes to POVray and need some help
configuring and using it.
I'm on a Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz) running MacOS 10.4.10.
I've installed POVray 3.6.
I barely know what POVray is (excuse my ignorance), but have an interest
in it because of "Eagle 3D" which is a script that produces a .POV file
out of an electronic circuit board design.
The POV file is then (as far as I know) run through POVray to create a
3-dimensional drawing of the actual circuit board.
Check out this website for more info about Eagle 3D as well as pictures:
http://www.matwei.de/doku.php?id=en:eagle3d:eagle3d
What I've done so far is download the installation files from the above
site, the direct file-link being:
http://www.matwei.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?id=en%3Aeagle3d%3Aeagle3d&cache=cache&media=files:eagle3d:eagle3d_1_05_27112006.zip
And then I placed the ULP (script file) where my electronic design
application; Eagle (http://www.cadsoft.de/) can find it.
However, when it comes to POVray and how to treat the Eagle-generated
.POV file I'm totally lost.
I've so far double-clicked the POV file which loaded it into POVray, and
following that I assumed that I should just go to the "Render" menu and
choose to render this file. Well, I seemed to have gotten several error
messages.
Upon contacting the author of Eagle 3D I was told that I need to tell
POVray the location of a specific folder which came with Eagle 3D.
However, I don't see any way of configuring this in POVray.
A folder named "POVray" comes with Eagle 3D which contains the following
files:
total 1712
-rwx------ 1 21456 Nov 27 2006 alphalcd.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 39231 Nov 27 2006 cap.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 13141 Nov 27 2006 capwima.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 78 Nov 27 2006 col.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 210961 Nov 27 2006 connector.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 65218 Nov 27 2006 diode.inc
-rwx------ 1 54344 Nov 27 2006 eagle3d.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 59350 Nov 27 2006 ic.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 14237 Nov 27 2006 qfp.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 81236 Nov 27 2006 resistor.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 16955 Nov 27 2006 socket.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 95898 Nov 27 2006 special.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 48831 Nov 27 2006 switch.inc
-rwx------ 1 223 Nov 27 2006 tex_elko.png
-rwx------ 1 3039 Nov 27 2006 tex_elko_axial.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 46472 Nov 27 2006 tools.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 33623 Nov 27 2006 trafo.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 31581 Nov 27 2006 transistor.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Nov 27 2006 user.inc
I tried placing all those files in POVray's "include" folder, but I'm
still getting error messages when I try to render the POV file, so I
assume I have to place them somewhere else or I'm not understanding how
to use POVray properly.
Here are those error messages:
POV-Ray 3.6 for Mac OS Frontend Build 197
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (Mac CodeWarrior)
This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team. See the
documentation on how to contact the authors or visit us on the
internet at http://www.povray.org/.
POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
Parsing Options
Input file: Internal_drive:Users:Tiger:Desktop:test.pov (compatible
to version 3.60)
Remove bounds........On Split unions.........On
Library paths:
Output Options
Image resolution 160 by 120 (rows 0 to 120, columns 0 to 160).
Output file: test.pict, 24 bpp (system format)
Graphic display.....On (gamma: 1.8)
Mosaic preview.......Off
CPU usage histogram.Off
Continued trace......Off
Tracing Options
Quality: 9
Bounding boxes......On Bounding threshold: 1
Light Buffer.........On Vista Buffer.........On Draw Vista
Buffer....Off
Antialiasing........Off
Radiosity............Off
Animation Options
Clock value.... 0.000 (Animation off)
Possible Parse Error: Could not find file 'tools.inc'
File test.pov line 117
Parse Error: Cannot open include file tools.inc.
File test.pov line 117
Parse Warning: Check that the file is in a directory specifed with a +L
switch or 'Library_Path='
.INI item. Standard include files are in the include directory or
folder. Please read your
documentation carefully.
File test.pov line 117
Total Scene Processing Times
Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
Photon Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
Render Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
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