"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> "HadleyRille" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.49a58c5bb203a2a6483613820@news.povray.org...
> >I have a friend who's using POV-Ray to render a model I built for her.  I
> >used
> > Poseray to convert it from a lwo to a POV scene.  I tested it, and was
> > able to
> > get this using POV 3.6.1c under WindowsXP:
> >
> > http://homepage.mac.com/johnknoll/in/aptera_pov_render.jpg
> >
> > My friend takes the same scene, renders it using POV 3.6.1 under Linux,
> > and gets
> > this:
> >
> > http://homepage.mac.com/johnknoll/in/lores_aptera4.png
> >
> > It sure looks like the normals are getting mangled, but it renders fine
> > for me.
> > I expect that this is some issue with the linux build, but she claims to
> > have
> > rendered many POV scenes including mesh objects and hasn't seen this issue
> > before.  The only difference here is that the model came from Poseray.
> > Any
> > thoughts about what might be going on, or what we might try to fix it?
> >
>
> Going from the top: Either the file got changed in some way between your
> machine and her machine, or it's a difference in the way the linux and
> windows builds deal with something in that particular file.
>
> Check for errors/warnings in your message stream. Also check her message
> stream for any errors/warnings.
>
> Try getting a copy of the misbehaving file back from her and rendering it on
> your machine. If you sent the file as a flat text file through email then
> it's possible that some part of the editing/emailing/saving process has made
> an operating system dependant or locale dependant change to the file. So try
> to use a different technique to get the file back (e.g. memory stick, or zip
> the file and send as binary). If you simply reverse the process you used to
> send the file then the change could get reversed , masking the cause, so
> using a very different technique to get the file back may help expose the
> cause.
>
> If that fails, get her to post a copy of the misbehaving file on
> povray.text.scene-files or a compressed copy on povray.binaries.scene-files
> and I'm sure people will take a look at it for you to see if there's
> anything wrong with the format.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.

Thank you for these suggestions.  I'll follow up and report back.  I sent the
file in a zip archive originally, but we should eliminate the possibility that
the file has become corrupted.

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