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Ok, I've found the time-limit workaround, however when ever I try to render a
scene povray outputs this:
povray: this pre-release version of POV-Ray for Unix expires in 5 day(s) and 5
hour(s)
Unknown error code
Has anyone else had this problem?
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Rob wrote:
> Ok, I've found the time-limit workaround, however when ever I try to
> render a scene povray outputs this:
>
> povray: this pre-release version of POV-Ray for Unix expires in 5 day(s)
> and 5 hour(s)
> Unknown error code
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
There was info about this problem in this newsgroup *yesterday*!
There is no workaround anymore, beta 29 has permanently expired this time.
Wait for beta 30.
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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> There is no workaround anymore, beta 29 has permanently expired this time.
this seemed to work:
#povray --betacode
829964851
#POVRAY_BETA=829964851 povray
povray: this pre-release version of POV-Ray for Unix expires in 5 day(s) and 4
hour(s)
No input file provided
#
I doubt the unknown error-code thing has anything to do with the expiration.
Anyway, I just tried installing from source, and the same thing happens. Anyone
know of a line in a source file that can be changed? I had a little look for
myself, but couldn't find anything.
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Rob wrote:
> Anyway, I just tried installing from source, and the same thing happens. Anyone
> know of a line in a source file that can be changed? I had a little look for
> myself, but couldn't find anything.
look in vfe.cpp at around line 751 (after "xtime_get(&t, TIME_UTC);") and
modify the following line to read as follows:
if (t.sec > 1262296800)
This will set the hard timeout to 1 Jan 2010.
-- Chris
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"Rob" <z_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I doubt the unknown error-code thing has anything to do with the expiration.
It has. This is a slightly different mechanism than the renew-me-every-week one,
and this "unknown" error is the all-too-well known symptom of it.
> Anyway, I just tried installing from source, and the same thing happens. Anyone
> know of a line in a source file that can be changed? I had a little look for
> myself, but couldn't find anything.
If you don't want to wait for the beta 30 Linux binary, look in vfe.cpp.
VirtualFrontEnd::Start() is the thing you will want to patch.
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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Rob" <z_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > I doubt the unknown error-code thing has anything to do with the expiration.
>
> It has. This is a slightly different mechanism than the renew-me-every-week one,
> and this "unknown" error is the all-too-well known symptom of it.
>
>
> > Anyway, I just tried installing from source, and the same thing happens. Anyone
> > know of a line in a source file that can be changed? I had a little look for
> > myself, but couldn't find anything.
>
> If you don't want to wait for the beta 30 Linux binary, look in vfe.cpp.
> VirtualFrontEnd::Start() is the thing you will want to patch.
Where do I find file vfe.cpp - it doesn't seem to be installed. Is this file
required to be changed before compiling the program?
thanks a lot
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"mkoster" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > If you don't want to wait for the beta 30 Linux binary, look in vfe.cpp.
> > VirtualFrontEnd::Start() is the thing you will want to patch.
>
> Where do I find file vfe.cpp - it doesn't seem to be installed. Is this file
> required to be changed before compiling the program?
It's one of POV-Ray's C++ source code files, so yes - if you want it to have any
effect, you need to compile afterwards...
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