AFAIK, you need to set path = youshaderdirectoryhere or add this line of code
to the RIB file:
Option "searchpath" "shader" ["youshaderdirectoryhere"]
the setting the path thing is the best idea, IMO.

"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:

> its quite nice to see there is very little differemce in these two renders,
> kinda shows the quality of povray.
>

Well, depends on what you mean by quality. POV-Ray doesn't have programmable
shaders...I'd rather dare you to compare the quality of the two when that is
taken into consideration. The shadows are a bit weird, as they don't seem to be
in the renderman standard(and the usual arealight trick doesn't seem to work
too well in renderman). But then, neither could you do something like
windowhighlight.sl- try cutting that from this
site(http://www.renderman.org/RMR/Shaders/RCShaders/index.html), compiling it,
then applying it to an object. Its pretty impressive. Or use windowlight
instead of a standard povray light(just change the name in the RIB file).

>
> on a side note, i tried a few test renders, but kept getting the message
> that the povpointlight shader could not be found, even tho it was in my
> shaders dir, or anywhere i put it.
>
> Rick
>
> "Alex Magidow" <axi### [at] mninternet> wrote in message
> news:3896DA4D.EEDE9998@mninter.net...
> > I've attached a couple of zip files, with two images in each. They show
> > the differences between rendering in POV-Ray and rendering in BMRT. The
> > UV's seem a bit messed up in the exported RIBs, though...also, the
> > parameters to the plastic shading style in BMRT are far different from
> > the parameters to the POV-Ray standard finish for textures.
> >
> > --
> > You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
> >   You take your POV-Ray to work and raytrace a little animation while
> > out for lunch.
> > Produced by Alex Magidow's Sig File Randomizer(YKYBRTTL jokes courtesy
> > of c.g.r.raytracing)
> >
> >

--
You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
  You take your POV-Ray to work and raytrace a little animation while out for
lunch.
Produced by Alex Magidow's Sig File Randomizer(YKYBRTTL jokes courtesy of
c.g.r.raytracing)

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