POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Scene render problem : Re: Scene render problem--solved Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:22:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scene render problem--solved  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 17 May 1999 03:30:45
Message: <373FB794.DE833737@aol.com>
'ceil' also exists, goes with 'floor' somehow I guess. What I didn't find
anything on is 'track'.


Ken wrote:
> 
> Johannes Riechart wrote:
> >
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Thanks a bunch for the tip-- I renamed the material and it worked perfectly.
> > Any other reserved words I should watch out for?  Or maybe read the
> > documentation a little more thoroughly  :-( !!
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > J R
> 
>   The povray docs have an entire section devoted to detailing the
> reserved keywords that is uses as instructions. It should not be
> too difficult to locate but it certainly takes quite a while to
> remember them all (or the majority of them). I thought I had heard
> them all but the "floor" keyword floored me when I read Nathans
> reply to you. What the word floor has to with math operators is
> anyones guess but it is in the list. I guess it's time "I" RTFM !
>   You can easily avoid any chance of having this happen again if you
> always make sure your #declare identifiers are capitolized in the
> first letter. You could have #declare Floor and be all right and I
> often see #declare Sphere which is also exceptable because of the
> capitolization of the first letter.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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