On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:57:49 -0400, nemesis wrote:

> =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> High!
>>
>> My loved one, an avid Blenderer, send me a contribution for a joint
>> project... but unfortunately, Blender's POV export function generates a
>> huge collection of include files, which are mostly to be stored in
>> POV's include folder.
>>
>> But I wonder that obviously, there is no include folder at all with
>> POV-Ray 3.6 for (Debian Sidux) Linux. /usr/share/povray, which would be
>> the most probable place to look for, simply contains no include folder
>> - and as I just wrote a small test scene and tried to render it,
>> POV-Ray returned an error because of being unable to locate
>> "colors.inc" - so could it be that my version came with no standard
>> includes at all?
>>
>> See you in Khyberspace!
>>
>> Yadgar
> 
> It's /usr/share/povray/include on Ubuntu.  Should be the same on
> Debian...
> 
> If it's giving you much trouble, just download the binary distribution
> from povray.org and install it in your $HOME

I don't recall this problem myself when playing with Blender and the POV-
Ray exporter.  The include files were always in the same directory as 
the .pov file and it just worked for me....

Jim

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