Hi,

Working on animation (using the example in the tutorial), I bumpt into a problem
with specifying and finding ini files. When I follow the tutorial and add POVRAY
to the command line, I get an error message:

Preset INI file is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES2\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS
V3.6\RENDERER\QUICKRES.INI', section is '[800x600, No AA]'.
Preset source file is 'C:\Program Files2\POV-Ray for Windows
v3.6\scenes\testfile.pov'.
Rendering using command line 'POVRAY'.
Could not find file 'POVRAY.ini'
Cannot open INI file 'POVRAY'.
Cannot process command-line due to a parse error.
This is not a valid command-line. Check the command-line for syntax errors,
correct them, and try again!

With the file myopts.ini I got the same. I coudn't find where to save your ini
files in the tutorial, so I've tried it in, among others, the renderer folder
and in the ini folder, but it doesn't work.

If I leave alone the ini files, and just add +kff20 to the command line, povray
hangs itself...

Does anybody know whats wrong (i'm using vista btw)? Thanks very much!

P.S. are there sites or books that have "POV-ray for dummies". I know nearly
everything is discribed in the tutorial, but it always asumes a certain basic
level of knowledge of language, strings, floats, functions, settings, etc,
which I don't have. I can't find where to begin to learn the basics I need for
the more complex scenes and move on from there... I'm glad I can post questions
here, but would like to be able to solve things myself.

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