POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Error opening output file Server Time
13 Aug 2024 19:21:19 EDT (-0400)
  Error opening output file (Message 1 to 5 of 5)  
From: Darcy Johnston
Subject: Error opening output file
Date: 17 Jul 1998 22:28:04
Message: <35AFF625.D593B3DD@scar.utoronto.ca>
I was trying to trace the code given by Micheal Andrews for his Hazy
Days image and I keep getting the error:

> File init error.
> Error opening output file.

I assume that its referring to the output image file, but other scenes
have been rendering fine, so I don't understand.

Any ideas?
Darcy


Post a reply to this message

From: K  Tyler
Subject: Re: Error opening output file
Date: 18 Jul 1998 02:04:09
Message: <35B01EA4.EF204D5A@pacbell.net>
I just tried the file. When saving from my browser I named
it Hazy.pov . After opening the file in pov 3.1 I hit the render
button and away it went. I guess the only thing I can think of
is have you saved the file as a.pov file? I'm not sure it really
matters as long as you saved it somewhere in one of the know
paths that pov looks for. You might want to try saving the source
again and as I did save as a plain text file and name it hazy.pov.
It's all I can think of. Good Luck
K.Tyler

Darcy Johnston wrote:

> I was trying to trace the code given by Micheal Andrews for his Hazy
> Days image and I keep getting the error:
>
> > File init error.
> > Error opening output file.
>
> I assume that its referring to the output image file, but other scenes
> have been rendering fine, so I don't understand.
>
> Any ideas?
> Darcy


Post a reply to this message

From: Darcy Johnston
Subject: Re: Error opening output file
Date: 18 Jul 1998 16:54:15
Message: <35B0F95D.492D484D@scar.utoronto.ca>
K. Tyler wrote:

> I just tried the file. When saving from my browser I named
> it Hazy.pov . After opening the file in pov 3.1 I hit the render
> button and away it went. I guess the only thing I can think of
> is have you saved the file as a.pov file? I'm not sure it really
> matters as long as you saved it somewhere in one of the know
> paths that pov looks for. You might want to try saving the source
> again and as I did save as a plain text file and name it hazy.pov.
> It's all I can think of. Good Luck

Well, I copied the text and pasted it into a new file and it worked
fine...go figure.I'd still be interested in knowing what exactly may have
caused my error.

Thanks,
Darcy


Post a reply to this message

From: Greg T  Anderson
Subject: Re: Error opening output file
Date: 23 Jul 1998 12:17:36
Message: <torgo###-2307981018220001@md09c034.resd.honeywell.com>
I hit this problem with the Mac version, and it turned out it was
because I had the file locked.  Make sure you have write permission
(whatever OS you're using...) to the output file.
   If there is no previous output image file, then... I dunno.

   Greg


Post a reply to this message

From: Eric Freeman
Subject: Re: Error opening output file
Date: 10 Sep 1998 10:07:51
Message: <35f7cf27.0@news.povray.org>
Darcy Johnston <93j### [at] scarutorontoca> wrote in message
<35AFF625.D593B3DD@scar.utoronto.ca>...
>I was trying to trace the code given by Micheal Andrews for his Hazy
>Days image and I keep getting the error:
>
>> File init error.
>> Error opening output file.
>
>I assume that its referring to the output image file, but other scenes
>have been rendering fine, so I don't understand.
>
>Any ideas?

I had this problem once.  It turned out that I had accidentally deleted the
directory that POV was putting finished images in.  Since the directory
didn't exist, POV couldn't write the file.

Eric


--------------------------------
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2354/
http://www.datasync.com/~reba/


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.