POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : image_map as function in isosurface might crash : Re: image_map as function in isosurface might crash Server Time
2 Nov 2024 11:27:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: image_map as function in isosurface might crash  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 1 Dec 2001 03:58:52
Message: <TyLzzPAusJC8EwJN@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it bob h who wrote:
>3.5.beta.8.icl.win32, WinXP, P3, 800MHz, 512 MB SDRAM
>
>Okay, since beta 8 has *unofficially* hit the streets....   :-|
>
>As my subject line says image_maps can crash the beta 8, and if not crashing
>completely can cause a Render Error.
>
>Apparently Jide's post about Landscape.pov is related to that, "Problem in
>Evaluate_TPat" is one of the possible errors.  "Warp type (number here) not
>yet implemented is another".

This appears to be an instance of "if an isosurface is the first
function parsed, then things go horribly wrong".

A workround is to add "#declare foo=function{0}" at the top of the
scene.


-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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