Hi all

When trying to render skyvase with megapov, versions:

3.1g.mp+.0.5a.0.2.5b (UniMegaPOVPlus 0.5a mod 0.2.5b).Linux.gcc
3.1g.mp.0.6.2 (mPov 0.6.2).Linux.gcc
3.1g.mp.0.7.0 (mPov 0.7.0).Linux.gcc

I get the error message:

Parsing.......    pigment { FBM_Clouds }
    finish { ambient 1.0 diffuse 0 }
}
texture {                          // The darker underside of the clouds
    pigment { FBM_Clouds  translate -0.15* <----ERROR

/usr/local/lib/povray31/include/textures.inc:335: error: No matching } in pigment, *
found
instead.

It renders fine (though slower than standard 3.1g), with version 3.1g.ump.0.4
(UniMegaPov
0.4).Linux.gcc.

This has all probably been discovered before, but I wan't aware of the problem
(whatever
it is). 

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Steve wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> When trying to render skyvase with megapov, versions:
> 
> 3.1g.mp+.0.5a.0.2.5b (UniMegaPOVPlus 0.5a mod 0.2.5b).Linux.gcc
> 3.1g.mp.0.6.2 (mPov 0.6.2).Linux.gcc
> 3.1g.mp.0.7.0 (mPov 0.7.0).Linux.gcc
> 
> I get the error message:
> 
> Parsing.......    pigment { FBM_Clouds }
>     finish { ambient 1.0 diffuse 0 }
> }
> texture {                          // The darker underside of the clouds
>     pigment { FBM_Clouds  translate -0.15* <----ERROR
> 
> /usr/local/lib/povray31/include/textures.inc:335: error: No matching } in pigment, *
found
> instead.
> 
> It renders fine (though slower than standard 3.1g), with version 3.1g.ump.0.4
(UniMegaPov
> 0.4).Linux.gcc.
> 
> This has all probably been discovered before, but I wan't aware of the problem
(whatever
> it is).

My official version of skyvase does not have "pigment { FBM_Clouds }"
clouds anywhere in the file. You are probably using a custom version
of the file. Anyway you cannot have a finish statement, declared or
otherwise, within a pigment statement which would explain the error
message.

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On Mon, 28 May 2001 06:10:45 -0700, Ken wrote:

>> /usr/local/lib/povray31/include/textures.inc:335: error: No matching } in pigment,
* found
>> instead.

>My official version of skyvase does not have "pigment { FBM_Clouds }"
>clouds anywhere in the file. You are probably using a custom version
>of the file. Anyway you cannot have a finish statement, declared or
>otherwise, within a pigment statement which would explain the error
>message.

It renders fine in standard 3.1g, and no mention of { FBM_Clouds } in my 
copy.  I've just rendered a scene with textures.inc included, but get no 
errors.  Here is what FBM_Clouds looks like in textures.inc:

#declare FBM_Clouds =
pigment {
    bozo
    turbulence 0.65
    octaves 6
    omega 0.7
    lambda 2
    color_map { 
        [0.0 rgb 0.85]
        [0.1 rgb 0.75] 
        [0.5 rgb 0.75] 
        [0.5 rgbf <1,1,1,1>]
    } 
scale <6, 1, 6>
}

None of the textures/pigments called from textures.inc include this pigment. 

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My Mistake.

It is to do with the command line option +b1000.  Really strange that I get
the error that I'm getting though and with varying results with different
POV/Mega versions.  

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Memory trouble perhaps.  Different compilations, different ways of handling
it, maybe explains something.

Bob H.

"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
>
> It is to do with the command line option +b1000.  Really strange that I
get
> the error that I'm getting though and with varying results with different
> POV/Mega versions.

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On Tue, 29 May 2001 05:20:34 -0500, Bob H. wrote:
>Memory trouble perhaps.  Different compilations, different ways of handling
>it, maybe explains something.
>
>Bob H.
>
>"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
>news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
>>
>> It is to do with the command line option +b1000.  Really strange that I
>get
>> the error that I'm getting though and with varying results with different
>> POV/Mega versions.

I was unclear there, I meant some give me the error, and some don't. 

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In article <3b137801$1@news.povray.org> , "Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> 
wrote:

> Memory trouble perhaps.  Different compilations, different ways of handling
> it, maybe explains something.

Skyvase.pov only uses a few KB of memory, you could render it on a system
with one MB of RAM...


   Thorsten

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"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3b140c3d@news.povray.org...
> In article <3b137801$1@news.povray.org> , "Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom>
> wrote:
>
> > Memory trouble perhaps.  Different compilations, different ways of
handling
> > it, maybe explains something.
>
> Skyvase.pov only uses a few KB of memory, you could render it on a system
> with one MB of RAM...

Yes, but couldn't the +b1000 throw a wrench into the works?  That's what I
was getting at anyway.  Obviously it is not a large number (1 MB) but I was
grasping at straws there, memory use flaw type thing.

Bob H.

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On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:13:28 -0500, Bob H. wrote:

>Yes, but couldn't the +b1000 throw a wrench into the works?  That's what I
>was getting at anyway.  Obviously it is not a large number (1 MB) but I was
>grasping at straws there, memory use flaw type thing.

I was thinking something on the same lines, but the error message is quite 
spurious if that is the case. 

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In article <3b142d2c$1@news.povray.org> , "Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> 
wrote:

> Yes, but couldn't the +b1000 throw a wrench into the works?

No, it actually reduces memory use compared to say +b1 (a few bytes only in
skyvase.pov in either case).  You could set it to +b1000000 and it would not
require more memory than +b1000 in any case.


    Thorsten


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