POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : dificulty getting super-patch running : Re: dificulty getting super-patch running Server Time
3 Sep 2024 02:16:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: dificulty getting super-patch running  
From: Loial Raven (Stuart MeerKat)
Date: 10 Jul 1999 19:36:19
Message: <3787DA52.AFB566AB@yahoo.com>
AHA, it work now... must've been a spelling mistake or something, thank you :)

Ron Parker wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 18:04:58 -0700, "Loial Raven (Stuart MeerKat)"
> <Loi### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> >Hey, i got x-povray version to compile, it took reinstalling with using
> >unzip -a <file>... that made those anoying ^M's disapear hehehe... well, it
> >also took some playing with the makefile... but for some reason, it won't
> >compile the svga based one, which i rather use... it keeps on saying that it
> >needs a bunch of X stuff, so i think things aren't fully set up in the
> >makefile... if anyone knows about where the problem is now, the help would
> >be most apreciated :)
>
> You have to type "make newsvga" or "make newunix" to configure the
> include files for something besides x-povray.
>
> >Oh, and also, both the windows version and the linux version don't have the
> >spline's working, am i missing something? or is it disabled...?
>
> Assuming we're still talking about the superpatch, it works for me.
> Try this code:
>
> ---------- cut here ------>8===========
> camera {location -5*z look_at 0}
> light_source { -5*z rgb 1.5}
>
>
> #declare myspl=spline{
>   cubic_spline
>   0, <0,0,0>
>   .2,<1,0,0>
>   .8,<2,1,0>
>   1,<3,1,0>
>   }
>
> #declare i=0;
> #while (i<1)
>   sphere {myspl(i), .1 pigment {color rgb 1}}
>   #declare i=i+.1;
> #end
> ---------- cut here ------>8===========


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