Almost all objects are solids, but i do have about six bezier patch cylinders
and one moray plugin dome, which is smooth and small.  Are these what you're
talking about?  If so, how do i make those a union?  Is all i do change the
'dome' to 'union'?  would it help if you could see the code of the pov file?
It's "only" about 4000+ lines long so far.  If i can't easily work this out,
i'll just forget about making the distributed files (when i'm done) easily
read and just make a good readme file so people can use this model.  That
might be best anyway.

Charles Fusner wrote:

> ryan constantine wrote:
> >
> > i've run a few tests with simple objects and everything works fine.
> > then i try to scan the complex object i was talking about in my previous
> > post and megapov closes on me with no explaination!  i barely starts to
> > parse, and then blamo!  it blows up!  how do i fix this?
>
> What precisely are you trying to scan? Is it, or does it contain
> a triangle mesh, perchance? I did run into a problem while developing
> triscan that MegaPOV 0.4 went boom when the trace() function was used
> against a mesh{...} object. Same deal with mesh2{...} The only way
> around it was to change mesh{...} to union{...} (which you can
> still see in the routines which export the culling.tmp file)
> It's not an ideal solution, since the mesh primitive has memory
> advantages, but for the nonce, it's a workaround.
>
> I reported the problem, but, as I recall, I was too late, and
> there was an acknowledgement that someone else already reported
> that, and that it is supposed to be fixed in the next release
> of MegaPOV.
>
> The only other thing that ever crashed MegaPOV entirely without
> error message was running a scene with no objects in it, but I
> added the generic Triscan_Setup() submacro to cure that by adding
> a simple camera and text object, so that shouldn't be it anymore.
> Let me know if any of this helps. If not, can you make the
> troublesome target object available, and we'll see if I can
> confirm it so I can make a deeper inquiry into it.
>
> Charles

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