Morpheus Dreamlord wrote:
> 
> Umm, yes, sorry, I was typing quickly Tit_Hull is the name..lol.
> 
> What happens is Povray looks forward about 20 characters, then starts
> parsing from that point, with obvious error messages (this happens on
> other peoples scene files too, stuff that worked with 3.1a (I skipped b,
> c, versions)

That is a different story altogether. I went from pov v3.1r1 which was
the very first public release version to Pov 3.1d. I too use a lot of
while loops in my scenes and have as yet had no problems like you describe.
Not to say it won't happen but not yet anyway. I do recall once or twice
something like this happening but that was back when I only had 32 megs
of ram and swapped to the hard drive a lot. I just blamed it on the swapping
process and it has not occured since I have upgraded to 128 megs.

Maybe you have an odd memory leak but if it is restricting your rendering
activity that much you might as well post an official report before
they issue Pov v3.1e due out in a short time. It will give them something
to think about before the next release and it will also keep it from
happening again to someone else if it is a pov related bug.


I think Twyst might still have v3.1a on his site and it's worth
taking a look if it will fix your problem.

http://twysted.net

Some of the official mirrors might also have an older version of the
program in their archives. 

Try this site to see if they have a copy. It will be in directory named
mirrors/pub/povray or something like that

ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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