I would be willing to try and render the image out of Moray. Just post the
mdl in moray.binaries.

Ken wrote:

> Chris Maryan wrote:
> >
> > The problem has shown up in the past and it does not seem to be
> > resticted to .png output. I've attached all of the associated files.
>
>  Chris,
>
>  I am happy (sad ?) to report that regardless of what I tried I could
> not repeat the blotchy pattern that you are seeing when rendering the
> same scene. I tried it with the included .ini file, with different
> output image file formats, turned radiosity on and off, tried it
> with the .ini file and the global settings commented out, several
> combinations with and without AA, with the global settings used but
> no ini file, and with both the global settings and the .ini file not
> used. I basically ran out of possible combinations to try to reproduce
> the blotchy appearance but failed at every attempt.
>   The only thing I can think of that I did try, but failed because
> I have an older version, is to render the file while inside Moray
> itself. There might be a bug in the way that Moray is working with
> Pov as an external rendering process. You did not mention if this
> behaviour manifests itself when you render directly within Pov and
> have Moray shut down but I suspect you like most Moray users seldom
> use Pov as a stand alone program.
>  I would suggest we get another Moray user to try the .mdl file and
> see if they can reproduce the same problem you are seeing. If they
> can duplicate the problem it's time to talk to Lutz about how to
> correct this abhorrent behaviour you are observing.
>   You might try to render it directly in Pov to see if the output
> is the same. If you can't reproduce it directly in Pov but it comes
> back in Moray it is something to get worried about.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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