"Patrick Elliott" <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.199df9cf9da2704989856@news.povray.org...
> In article <3F325217.CC7B3A90@pacbell.net>, tyl### [at] pacbellnet
says...

> Hmm. The plugin won't work on my copy of 3.5 for some odd reason. It
will
> load POV-Ray and apparently does something.. But there is no
rendering,
> it just dims the 'Render' button and the after a bit times out or
> something and goes back to normal, with no image created for the
texture.
> Needless to say this kind of defeats the purpose of the program. :p
>
> Does anyone else have this issue?

     Yep, me Patrick. Is it supposed to render the images though? Or
is there something we're both missing? If we have to render the
images, how long will it take? I have something like 550 textures on
my PC.

    ~Steve~


>
> -- 
> void main () {

>     call functional_code()
>   else
>     call crash_windows();
> }

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In article <3f37d540@news.povray.org>, dot### [at] dotcom says...
> 
> "Patrick Elliott" <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:MPG.199df9cf9da2704989856@news.povray.org...
> > In article <3F325217.CC7B3A90@pacbell.net>, tyl### [at] pacbellnet
> says...
> 
> > Hmm. The plugin won't work on my copy of 3.5 for some odd reason. It
> will
> > load POV-Ray and apparently does something.. But there is no
> rendering,
> > it just dims the 'Render' button and the after a bit times out or
> > something and goes back to normal, with no image created for the
> texture.
> > Needless to say this kind of defeats the purpose of the program. :p
> >
> > Does anyone else have this issue?
> 
>      Yep, me Patrick. Is it supposed to render the images though? Or
> is there something we're both missing? If we have to render the
> images, how long will it take? I have something like 550 textures on
> my PC.
> 
>     ~Steve~
 
It is supposed to render which ever ones you have selected in order to 
generate its internal thumbnail list. It uses some sort of 
special database to store this stuff, so I don't think you can simply 
take the needed POV file, render it and then try to tell the texture 
viewer to import that image. Instead it appears that it is supposed to 
work like the preview function that Moray has for textures. Otherwise, 
there is really no point at all for it to use a .pge to link the two 
together. After all, it can't directly import the text for the texture 
anyway, you have to cut and paste it.

Something must have inadvertently been changed in POV-Ray 3.5 that 
interferes with this plugin talking to POV-Ray correctly. :( I do 
remember it worked right using 3.1 back when I had both programs 
installed on my old 486. I 'could' try setting it to use the version of 
3.1 I still have installed, but there are new things in 3.5 that you 
still couldn't render a thumbnail for in 3.1. :p

Hmm. Trying to remember, was there a source code file for the viewer in 
the site? Maybe someone could track down the issue and fix it if so, but 
since my eyes cross every time I look at the plugin interface code, I 
would prefer it to be someone that knows what they are doing. ;) lol

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Hmm. Trying to remember, was there a source code file for the viewer in
> the site? Maybe someone could track down the issue and fix it if so, but
> since my eyes cross every time I look at the plugin interface code, I
> would prefer it to be someone that knows what they are doing. ;) lol

You could always try contacting the author of the program :)
mailto:web### [at] friedemann-schmidtcom

I am pretty sure that his last update was for POV-Ray v3.1g and he may not
have gotten around to adapting it to v3.5.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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Just tested it. 3.1g renders the thumbnail correctly. So something got 
changed in 3.5 or something that stops this from working right... This is 
not good imho, since the plugin stuff is complicated enough to figure out 
with minimal examples, without it turning out that in some cases it may 
no longer even work at all. :( Of course it is possible that something in 
the texture viewer is at fault, but since it appears to suffer from what 
you would normally expect if a COM interface hung and then timed out, 
this seems to me unlikely.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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In article <3F3845CC.B20545F0@pacbell.net>, tyl### [at] pacbellnet says...
> 
> 
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. Trying to remember, was there a source code file for the viewer in
> > the site? Maybe someone could track down the issue and fix it if so, but
> > since my eyes cross every time I look at the plugin interface code, I
> > would prefer it to be someone that knows what they are doing. ;) lol
> 
> You could always try contacting the author of the program :)
> mailto:web### [at] friedemann-schmidtcom
> 
> I am pretty sure that his last update was for POV-Ray v3.1g and he may not
> have gotten around to adapting it to v3.5.
> 
> 
True enough, but as far as I was aware, there where no changes to the 
code involving the plugins in 3.5, so it 'should' work anyway. Otherwise 
older versions of Moray, which use much the same interface, would stop 
working right as well. It seems really odd, but I guess contacting him is 
probably best.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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