"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions. I am now rendering in 3.8, only takes about 20s and
> that's with an even bigger inc file. But speed isn't an issue for me, at least
> with 3.7 since I can distribute it.

Well, I was juggling making the kid dinner + other stuff + Bourke-level POV-Ray
creativity, so I wanted to get a finished render so that I could get a better
overall idea of what was going on.

> The 3.8 I downloaded has the gui (MacOS), is
> there a pure command line for 3.8? Can't efficiently do a distributed render
> with the gui.

Yes Sir.
I just ran [Path] pvengine64 /RENDER scene.pov, and that seemed to work fine
under M$ Win 7

> See previous message, tried cylinders and spheres (3.7), same problem.
>
> There are also nasty defects in the 3.8 render (discs), see attached example
> frame. Strange they are mostly on the right half, it's those narrow dark
> slivers. Perhaps they are a cue to what's happening.

Dunno.  If they're disks or something, maybe somehow they got oriented wrong,
and they're dark colors in front of light?

I just tried again with spheres that are scaled by 0.01 in x, so that they
resemble your original disc.  Can't tell if the lines are there.
What resolution are you rendering at?

- Bill

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