"Bob Hughes" <bob### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Hiya woodcarver.
>
> Strange that you say program defaults are used and it wouldn't do this
> tutorial correctly.
>
> I gave that tutorial a try myself here, just now, to make sure something
> wasn't wrong with it.
>
> I put an original povray.ini file (I had renamed to save from my changes)
> into the "renderer" subfolder, so I'm running the program as originally
> installed. Output image files write to where the scene file is, regardless
> of the 'pov' file location.
>
> It checks out okay, here, so I removed the image.tga from the scenes folder
> and retried rendering hfdemo.pov and then got the error you told of. That's
> the only explanation I can think of--  that it probably doesn't exist in the
> scenes folder.
>
> The way I understood your followup message it seemed you did see the
> image.tga file with the scenes (pov) files. But now I realize you might only
> be seeing the .pov files, which could explain why Alain is saying what he
> has said, that perhaps you're confusing pov files for rendered images. I was
> getting confused while reading that. :)
>
> You just need to locate the rendering of your  image.pov  scene file, which
> will be  image.tga  because of the +FT output type command switch, since the
> tutorial requires you to use it. At least prove it doesn't (or does) exist
> and figure out why from there.
>
> Bob Hughes


Thanks Bob, I will definately take another look-see, It is very possible
that I'm confused; I don't have a whole lot of time to work on this project
at one
"sitting", working 2 fullTime jobs!

woodcarver

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