Hi,

I have been playing now with win beta 24 and so far it's great on my Core2 Duo
under Vista x64! Keep up the great effort!

When trying to save radiosity data to a file for loading in a second pass, I
receive the message:

Possible Parse Error: In POV-Ray 3.7 and later 'save_file' has to be specified
as an option on the command-line, in an INI file or in a dialog (on some
platforms). The 'save_file' setting here will be ignored! Read the
documentation to find out more about radiosity changes!


Maybe I've missed something (but if I have, so has Google) but what is the new
command-line parameter (or INI setting)? I have not seen mention of it anywhere
on the newsgroup or in the change log. I have guessed several times but I can't
seem to get it to work.

Help?


Thanks

Chris Bond
aka sooperFoX

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sooperFoX wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been playing now with win beta 24 and so far it's great on my Core2 Duo
> under Vista x64! Keep up the great effort!
> 
> When trying to save radiosity data to a file for loading in a second pass, I
> receive the message:

Please note the release notes, which state quite clearly that radiosity is 
not finished. You cannot expect Google to to answer your question because as 
you may have noticed, there is no 3.7 documentation yet!

	Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Please note the release notes, which state quite clearly that radiosity is
> not finished. You cannot expect Google to to answer your question because as
> you may have noticed, there is no 3.7 documentation yet!
>
>  Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,

I am aware that it is "not finished" - but it doesn't say anywhere which parts
are not finished! In combination with that, the parser output was a little
misleading.

I can understand the decision to pre-implement the parser message in preparation
for the change but it would be nice if it mentioned somewhere in the release
notes that saving and loading radiosity data is not implemented yet.

Google indexes most of this newsgroup, and other forums/blogs and useful "POV
Tips" pages; I was hoping someone else had tried to use this function and wrote
about how they got it to work, or at least mentioned that it wasn't available
yet. I guess you and I are those people!

Cheers for the info. Do you think it would be possible to include a note about
the status of radiosity in the release notes?

Regards,
sooperFoX

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"sooperFoX" <bon### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
..
>
> I can understand the decision to pre-implement the parser message in preparation
> for the change but it would be nice if it mentioned somewhere in the release
> notes that saving and loading radiosity data is not implemented yet.
>


I havent detarred the gz2 files but assume they are similar to zip file, no
source; so I'll go out on a limb and say, ... be nice if the source was
available so everyone can see whats going on and offer tips and insight, such
that Fox would have the question answered in the source. Well written code
makes it obvious what is being programmed.

I hope I am wrong, but I didnt see the source.

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> I havent detarred the gz2 files but assume they are similar to zip file, no
> source; so I'll go out on a limb and say, ... be nice if the source was
> available so everyone can see whats going on and offer tips and insight, such
> that Fox would have the question answered in the source. Well written code
> makes it obvious what is being programmed.
> 
> I hope I am wrong, but I didnt see the source.
> 

No, source isn't available. Chris Cason said two days ago:

We will be releasing the beta source shortly, so if anyone is interested 
in working on that code, the opportunity will be there.

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sooperFoX wrote:
> Help?

Sorry, can't help much ;). The radiosity stuff is a 'todo' for us.

-- Chris

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