Hey, guys. I'm rendering the cloud scene over again, now with
slope-dependant textures, and the SuperPatch crashed on me about half-way
through the image. I was able to get the error message:

POVRAY caused an invalid page fault in
module POVRAY.EXE at 0257:0041c1c3.
Registers:
EAX=02639d48 CS=0257 EIP=0041c1c3 EFLGS=00010286
EBX=01afd278 SS=025f ESP=01afd140 EBP=ffffffff
ECX=ffffffff DS=025f ESI=ffffffff FS=3b5f
EDX=1e051f03 ES=025f EDI=06410ab8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b7 0c 6a 0f b7 54 6a 02 89 4c 24 50 0f b7 0c
Stack dump:
0000250b 4095e44c 8d2db089 062159dc 01afd200 00a00d68 01afd1e8 0040311b
06410038 9b96cdf8 404077ad 062159d8 6138abc4 4028e9ea 6a2aedca 3fd00d98

But, then I tried to continue the trace, and six lines later, it crashed
again (same message). I don't know what's special about that part of the
image. I really don't. Please, can someone help me? Would restarting the
machine or something like that help? Waaa....! I wanna render it....!

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I think I've narrowed it down to the water. It seems to be causing the
crash, what I don't understand is why it didn't show up earlier, and why it
was working (the entire scene would render) up until recently. I even
restarted and the problem persists. What do I do? Does someone want my
source code to try it out on their own?

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Do you use the SP 3.1g ? It crashed on me too, so I'm back to SP 3.1e for the
moment.
G.

TonyB wrote:

> I think I've narrowed it down to the water. It seems to be causing the
> crash, what I don't understand is why it didn't show up earlier, and why it
> was working (the entire scene would render) up until recently. I even
> restarted and the problem persists. What do I do? Does someone want my
> source code to try it out on their own?

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Could you both send me scene files that cause crashes so I might
track them down?

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:33:31 +0100, Gilles Tran wrote:
>Do you use the SP 3.1g ? It crashed on me too, so I'm back to SP 3.1e for the
>moment.
>G.
>
>TonyB wrote:
>
>> I think I've narrowed it down to the water. It seems to be causing the
>> crash, what I don't understand is why it didn't show up earlier, and why it
>> was working (the entire scene would render) up until recently. I even
>> restarted and the problem persists. What do I do? Does someone want my
>> source code to try it out on their own?
>


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These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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I'd like to do that but right now the scene involves 55 Mb of meshes and
image_maps so I have to simplify it a little before I can send anything...
G.

Ron Parker wrote:

> Could you both send me scene files that cause crashes so I might
> track them down?
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:33:31 +0100, Gilles Tran wrote:
> >Do you use the SP 3.1g ? It crashed on me too, so I'm back to SP 3.1e for the
> >moment.
> >G.
> >
> >TonyB wrote:
> >
> >> I think I've narrowed it down to the water. It seems to be causing the
> >> crash, what I don't understand is why it didn't show up earlier, and why it
> >> was working (the entire scene would render) up until recently. I even
> >> restarted and the problem persists. What do I do? Does someone want my
> >> source code to try it out on their own?
> >
>
> --
> These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
> The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
> My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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I'd have to send you the file for making the water heightfield and the rest
of the sources. I have to study for bimestral exams right now, so it'll be a
while. I'll go back to 3.1e if it solves my problem.

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If it helps I've been having crashes too they seem to be related to normals
especially when attached to HF's

Mick

TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
news:3842ba08@news.povray.org...
> I'd have to send you the file for making the water heightfield and the
rest
> of the sources. I have to study for bimestral exams right now, so it'll be
a
> while. I'll go back to 3.1e if it solves my problem.
>
>

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Mick Hazelgrove <mha### [at] mindaswinternetcouk> wrote in message
news:3842c121@news.povray.org...
> If it helps I've been having crashes too they seem to be related to
normals
> especially when attached to HF's
>

I've been getting inconsistent crashes after rendering parametric{} objects.
I haven't got a file that winSPg crashes on consistently though.

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>If it helps I've been having crashes too they seem to be related to normals
>especially when attached to HF's

That's exactly it...

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TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote...
> >If it helps I've been having crashes too they seem to be related to
normals
> >especially when attached to HF's
>
> That's exactly it...
>
>

Today I merged UVPov with the superpatch and ran into that problem.  It was
with a HF that was generated from a pattern.  I have added some code that
stopped the crash.  You'll have to wait about a week for the next release of
UVPov, though.  I'm working with smellenbergh to create
UVPov+SuperPatch+MultiPatch.  :-)

-Nathan

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