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1 May 2024 21:29:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: LDD POV-RAY missing parts  
From: dick balaska
Date: 22 Jun 2018 09:03:10
Message: <5b2cf38e$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/22/2018 08:36 AM, Elwood wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 22.06.2018 um 13:32 schrieb Elwood:
>>> Thanks. Yeh, I've been reading all of these pages, and it tells me why something
>>> has happened but not how to rectify it. I cannot understand why it now won't
>>> render any of my LDD models - yesterday it was just the one model with the
>>> problems now it's completely knacked.
>>
>> You'll have to start POV-Ray, from the `Tools` menu choose `Edit master
>> POVRAY.INI`, and in that file, add the line:
>>
>>      Library_Path="\\.\LDDIncludes"
>>
>> or
>>
>>      Library_Path="//./LDDIncludes"
>>
>> (either one should work)

The only time I ever use \\ is for Windows pseudo-devices or device drivers.
That's too deep for me to trust //.  I've not seen anyone else use // .
(Although it appears to be working because he got past the 
ldd_default_colors.inc problem)

> 
> Right - now getting an error window saying "Unable to generate necessary
> includes. Root element is missing".

That sounds like an upstream problem.  That message is not in POV-Ray.

> 
> If I check the 'don't generate includes' it goes back to the parsing error
> "cannot find file 'ldd_colors_declarations.bin'"

Are you mixing 32 bits driver with 64 bit POV-Ray?

-- 
dik
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