Wasn't it Uplah who wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>I'm back on POV-ray 3.6.1 for windows, trying to render a high res scene of
>2 molecules overlaid on top each other. Unbelievably, the .pov file VMD
>generated is 1.3GB! I've tried it in both POV-ray and MegaPOV, but no image
>file is generated. It just says:
>
>Total Scene Processing Times
>  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
>  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
>  Cloth Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
>  Mechsim Time:  0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
>  Render Time:   0 hours  9 minutes 44 seconds (584 seconds)
>  Postpr. Time:  0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
>  Total Time:    0 hours  9 minutes 44 seconds (584 seconds)
>CPU time used: kernel 8.94 seconds, user 275.69 seconds, total 284.63
>seconds
>
>POV-Ray finished
>
>I've tested the program with other scenes and it works fine. Does anyone
>know what I can do to fix this? I have 1GB RAM and various free GBs of hard
>disk space over many partitions.

A parse time of 0 seconds suggests to me that POV isn't parsing 1.3Gb of
data. Even on a pretty fast machine, POV should take quite a while to
perform the parsing of anything that big. 

Rather than looking at just the timings, take a look at the "Scene
Statistics" to see how many objects POV thinks there are in the scene.
If it says there are 0 finite objects, then it didn't find your
molecules. If is says there are 0 light sources then your scene appears
may empty because you can't see anything in the dark. Another
possibility (of many) is that VMD might not have pointed the camera
towards the molecules.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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