"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > ... I can't even get a *basic* experiment with a matrix to work
> > in v3.8xx for Windows:
> > ...
> > So I must be doing something basically wrong-- or else my syntax is
> > incorrect, although I don't see where.
>
> the problem must be elsewhere, the syntax is correct, tried it on (Linux,
> self-compiled) alpha.10064268.
>

Thanks.
That's strange, though; I just ran my matrix code snippet in v3.7.1 beta 9
(Windows), and it fails there as well, same error.

But I found the cause (at least for Windows builds): It's the matrix vector
values themselves that I used-- which I chose blindly, as just some combination
of 0's and 1's! Thinking that any combination would work for a simple syntax
test; apparently a bad idea. :-[

So I substituted the example values given in POV-ray's "matrix" docs...

matrix < 1, 1, 0,
       0, 1, 0,
       0, 0, 1,
       0, 0, 0 >

....and the #declared transform now runs without an error.

I guess it's not good to play around with things that I don't yet fully
understand ;-)

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