Sven Littkowski <I### [at] SvenLittkowskiname> wrote:

> Okay, everyone: I herewith declare myself as a big fool!
> I use POV-Ray for soooo many years, since around 1990 or so, and can you
> believe it I just oversaw all the time of posting here, that I used:
> QUALITY = 6
> And did not even think about checking for the Q setting!!!!!
> SHAME ON ME! I wasted so much of your all valuable time! But at least,
> one more time the POV-Ray community has proven its great pioneer-alike
> spirit! I owe you all my big thanks!

I've had a hard time "debugging" a scene in the past, when I did the same thing.
I'd really like to see some mechanism - image file metadata or something else,
for tagging an image with certain critical data - it would help keep a handle on
things like this.

Maybe we just need a tiny little FAQ/checklist for debugging scenes - not
because I'm Captain Obvious - but because sometimes we read-through errors,
overlook things, or just plain old forget to check the very simplest of things.
Did you place the object IN the scene after #declaring it?
Do you have a light source?
A camera?

I play with "advanced" scenes all the time, but I still find myself from time to
time struggling with the very simplest of all elements of the SDL file and
command syntax.   A reminder checklist is always helpful and always there,
whether anyone is online or not.

Glad to see you found your mistake, Sven.  I hope you develop this into a very
nice scene   :)

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