POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : sphere_sweep : Re: sphere_sweep Server Time
5 Sep 2024 20:20:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: sphere_sweep  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 2 Nov 1999 08:30:55
Message: <381ee78f@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:39:00 -0800, Ken wrote:
>
>
>"christof.schuler" wrote:
>> 
>> Hy,
>> 
>> I try to use sphere_sweep, but it does not work and I do not know why. I
>> heard of the possibilty of a sphere sweep but I do not find anything
>> about it in my help. So I took an example/question I found at this forum
>> (30.5.1998), but it does not work.
>
>> I suppose, that I still need an include-file. The text "sphere_sweep {
>> b_spline_sphere_sweep" keeps black in the povray-editor and the
>> error-message "object or directive expexted but undeclared identifier
>> 'sphere_sweep' found instead" comes.
>
>  This feature is not part of the official version of POV-Ray and
>requires one of the patched versions of the program to use it. I
>am pretty sure that the SuperPatch has this included and can be
>downloaded at:
>
>http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/

It's also important to note that syntax highlighting will still not work
for the new keywords, even though they're supported.  This may be fixable
with the next official version of POV, whenever that is, but for now we
have to put up with the new keywords staying black.

-- 
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html


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