Hi(gh)!

On 10.02.2014 17:21, jhu wrote:

>  From the main povray source you downloaded, copy the following directories to
> /usr/local/share/povray-3.7
>
> ini
> include
> scenes
> scripts

After having also copied povray.conf and povray.ini into the respective 
(newly created) directories, it works fine... thank you for compiling, jhu!

Two issues remain: firstly, I still get a warning message "Problem with 
option setting", and, as already with 3.6 on my Linux system, I have no 
proper preview window, instead of displaying the scene, merely the 
non-white parts of backdrop (non-POV-Ray) windows are tinted. I assume 
that this is a problem of my graphics driver... do you know of any 
workarounds for this (in earlier installations of Debian Linux, I in 
fact had a real rendering preview!)?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: To Germany With Love (Alphaville)

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 10.02.2014 17:21, jhu wrote:
>
> >  From the main povray source you downloaded, copy the following directories to
> > /usr/local/share/povray-3.7
> >
> > ini
> > include
> > scenes
> > scripts
>
> After having also copied povray.conf and povray.ini into the respective
> (newly created) directories, it works fine... thank you for compiling, jhu!
>
> Two issues remain: firstly, I still get a warning message "Problem with
> option setting", and, as already with 3.6 on my Linux system, I have no
> proper preview window, instead of displaying the scene, merely the
> non-white parts of backdrop (non-POV-Ray) windows are tinted. I assume
> that this is a problem of my graphics driver... do you know of any
> workarounds for this (in earlier installations of Debian Linux, I in
> fact had a real rendering preview!)?
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>
> Now playing: To Germany With Love (Alphaville)

Glad it works now! With regard to preview window, I don't know. It's not
something I've noticed mainly because I'm usually rendering on headless
computers.

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> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 10.02.2014 17:21, jhu wrote:
>
>>  From the main povray source you downloaded, copy the following
>> directories to
>> /usr/local/share/povray-3.7
>>
>> ini
>> include
>> scenes
>> scripts
>
> After having also copied povray.conf and povray.ini into the respective
> (newly created) directories, it works fine... thank you for compiling, jhu!
>
> Two issues remain: firstly, I still get a warning message "Problem with
> option setting", and, as already with 3.6 on my Linux system, I have no
> proper preview window, instead of displaying the scene, merely the
> non-white parts of backdrop (non-POV-Ray) windows are tinted. I assume
> that this is a problem of my graphics driver... do you know of any
> workarounds for this (in earlier installations of Debian Linux, I in
> fact had a real rendering preview!)?

in regards to the lack of preview window, perhaps the binary was built 
without libsdl (simple directmedia layer) ... see what povray --version 
returns (hint look for X Window display enabled/disabled)

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"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>
> Glad it works now! With regard to preview window, I don't know. It's not
> something I've noticed mainly because I'm usually rendering on headless
> computers.

Looks like it's compiled with X window disabled. That's probably why there's no
preview window. Let me see if I can enable X window support...

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On 12/02/14 00:10, jhu wrote:
> 
> Glad it works now! With regard to preview window, I don't know. It's not
> something I've noticed mainly because I'm usually rendering on headless
> computers.
> 

IIRC I used to have to run 3.6 with the option -visual DirectColor. I
put an alias in my ~/.bashrc thus:
alias povray=povray\ -visual\ DirectColor

I haven't had to do this for 3.7. But it might be worth trying it.
BTW Are you running Gnome or KDE? What version?

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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Oops. I posted at the same time as jhu and Jim. They seem to have the
solution. I hadn't thought that jhu might have compiled with the display
disabled.

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> >
> > Glad it works now! With regard to preview window, I don't know. It's not
> > something I've noticed mainly because I'm usually rendering on headless
> > computers.
>
> Looks like it's compiled with X window disabled. That's probably why there's no
> preview window. Let me see if I can enable X window support...

Unfortunately, not able to compile a static binary with X Window support.
Incidentally, I can compile a dynamic binary with X Window support, but that is
unlikely to work on your system since I'm compiling on Ubuntu 12.04.

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HI(gh)!

On 12.02.2014 01:10, jhu wrote:

> Glad it works now! With regard to preview window, I don't know. It's not
> something I've noticed mainly because I'm usually rendering on headless
> computers.

No monitor at all? Blind POVing... fascinating!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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> No monitor at all? Blind POVing... fascinating!

   Not fascinating. Just efficiency.

-- 
http://foo.bar.quux.over-blog.com/article-annlor-fait-des-bulles-121970031.html

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Posted a new binary in misc section. It should be 8% faster the current one you
have. But don't take my word for it. Try testing it via the benchmark.

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