On 1/24/2016 10:52 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 24.01.2016 um 13:15 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>
>> Why are the colors so different between the two renders?
>
> Because you're not paying attention to the parse warnings ;)
>
> ------ (camera_eye=-1)
> Parse Warning: assumed_gamma not specified, so gamma_correction is
> turned off for compatibility with this pre POV-Ray 3.7 scene. See the
> documentation for more details.
> Parse Warning: This scene did not contain a #version directive. Please
> be aware that as of POV-Ray 3.7, unless already specified via an INI
> option, a #version is expected as the first declaration in a scene file.
> POV-Ray may apply settings to some features that are
> intended to maintain compatibility with pre-3.7 scenes. You are strongly
> encouraged to add a #version statement to the scene to make your intent
> clear. Future versions of POV-Ray may make the presence of a #version
> statement mandatory.
> ------
>
> In other words: Your scene has no "#version" statement at all => POV-Ray
> now presumes a legacy scene, so you get 3.6 gamma handling defaults
> (which is no gamma handling).
>
>
> ------ (camera_eye=0)
> Possible Parse Error: assumed_gamma not specified in this POV-Ray 3.7 or
> later scene. Future versions of POV-Ray may consider this a fatal error.
> To avoid this warning, explicitly specify 'assumed_gamma 1.0' in the
> global_settings section. See the documentation for
> more details.
> Parse Warning: This scene had other declarations preceding the first
> #version directive. Please be aware that as of POV-Ray 3.7, unless
> already specified via an INI option, a #version is expected as the first
> declaration in a scene file. If this is not done, POV-Ray
> may apply compatibility settings to some features that are intended to
> make pre-3.7 scenes render as designed. You are strongly encouraged to
> add a #version statement to the scene to make your intent clear. Future
> versions of POV-Ray may make the presence of a
> #version mandatory.
> ------
>
> In other words: Your scene has a belated "#version 3.7" statement => you
> get 3.7 gamma handling defaults (which is "assumed_gamma 1.0").
>
>
> "But where does this '#version 3.7' statement come from?" you might ask.
>
> The secret lies in the inclusion of "transforms.inc", which you only
> pull in for camera_eye=0 or 1:
>
> As is customary for library include files, it does specify its own
> "#version" statement, so that future versions of POV-Ray may invoke
> backward compatibility mode for that paticular file in case they
> introduce some breaking changes to functionality. However, in order to
> not break the main scene's "#version" choice, it needs to revert the
> change at the end of the file; this is done using the following
> construct (which also acts as a guard against double inclusion):
>
>      #ifndef(FOO_INC_TEMP)
>      #declare FOO_INC_TEMP = version;
>      #version 3.5; // for example
>
>      // include file content goes here
>
>      #version FOO_INC_TEMP
>      #end
>
> Enter a quirk of the version handling as of version 3.7: As you can
> infer from the warning you get, as long as you don't specify a
> "#version" directive the /effective/ SDL version will be 3.6, because we
> presume that anything without a "#version" statement is a legacy scene.
> *But* the "version" pseudo-variable will return 3.7 (or whatever is the
> actual version of the POV-Ray binary you are running) in this case.
>
> This is to allow scenes to have "#version" as their very first statement
> (which is officially a mandatory requirement for 3.7 and later scenes),
> but still be able to adapt to the actual version used, by employing a
> construct like the following:
>
>      #version version;
>      #if (version >= 3.70)
>        #version 3.7; // use 3.7 features if we can have them
>        #declare Subsurface_On = yes;
>      #else
>        #version 3.6; // need at least 3.6
>        #declare Subsurface_On = yes;
>      #endif
>
> Thus, if you don't explicitly specify a "#version" directive, you'll get
> 3.6 behaviour by default, but including any standard include file will
> effectively set "#version 3.7" at the end of that include.
>

Thanks for clearing this up! The file was created using an LDraw to 
POV-Ray converter. For some reason they bundle the program along with 
POV-Ray 3.7 even though issues like these can easily arise. I will 
forward this information along to the group.


Mike

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