On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:51:10 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

> 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

Thinking a bit more, maybe what needs to happen is the export directory 
needs to be defined in the povray.ini file for povray 3.6?

Jim

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