Simon de Vet wrote:

> Kyle wrote:
>
> > Simon de Vet wrote:
> >
> > > Tried out the lens flare, first thing. Made a new scene, with a camera,
> > > light, no objects. Made the light visible in the camera's view. Created a
> > > lens flare. Set the camera to my cmaera, and the light to my light.
> > > Rendered. The poveditor gave me two extensive errors (with lots of
> > > FFFFFFFF kinda things (I can copy these down next time)) and my computer
> > > locked up
> > > entirely.
> > > This has happend both times I tried this feature. Ouch.
> > >
> > > Simon
> > > http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
> >
> > I got the same thing!  For some reason, when the camera was facing away
> > from the light, I got no errors, but when facing towards it I recieved
> > erros every time.  Is there a problem with the plug-in or am I doing
> > something wrong.  I noticed in the PovRay message window it said something
> > like the look_at Z coordinate was too long.  It looked like
> > 3.43564000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 or
> > something like that.  What's wrong?
>
> Hrm... with the camera away, did you get a flare?
>
> Logically, you shouldn't. Only visible lights should create flares.....
>
> Simon
> http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet

No, I guess I didn't mention that.  With the camera facing away I didn't get a
lens flare, but I didn't recieve any error messages.  (Like when the camera faces
the light source)  The scene just rendered like usual.

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