joost_1972 nous illumina en ce 2009-05-16 09:21 -->
> Hi,
> 
> Working on animation (using the example in the tutorial), I bumpt into a problem
> with specifying and finding ini files. When I follow the tutorial and add POVRAY
> to the command line, I get an error message:
> 
> Preset INI file is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES2\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS
> V3.6\RENDERER\QUICKRES.INI', section is '[800x600, No AA]'.
> Preset source file is 'C:\Program Files2\POV-Ray for Windows
> v3.6\scenes\testfile.pov'.
> Rendering using command line 'POVRAY'.
> Could not find file 'POVRAY.ini'
> Cannot open INI file 'POVRAY'.
> Cannot process command-line due to a parse error.
> This is not a valid command-line. Check the command-line for syntax errors,
> correct them, and try again!
> 
> With the file myopts.ini I got the same. I coudn't find where to save your ini
> files in the tutorial, so I've tried it in, among others, the renderer folder
> and in the ini folder, but it doesn't work.
> 
> If I leave alone the ini files, and just add +kff20 to the command line, povray
> hangs itself...
> 
> Does anybody know whats wrong (i'm using vista btw)? Thanks very much!
> 
> P.S. are there sites or books that have "POV-ray for dummies". I know nearly
> everything is discribed in the tutorial, but it always asumes a certain basic
> level of knowledge of language, strings, floats, functions, settings, etc,
> which I don't have. I can't find where to begin to learn the basics I need for
> the more complex scenes and move on from there... I'm glad I can post questions
> here, but would like to be able to solve things myself.
> 
> 
POV-Ray 3.6 on Vista needs to be installed in another folder than "program 
files". Vista forbid you from altering ini files located there. POV-Ray need to 
change povray.ini for each scene that you render.

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