POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : How to use Galaxy plugin? : Re: How to use Galaxy plugin? Server Time
28 Jul 2024 14:25:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to use Galaxy plugin?  
From: Chuck Roberts
Date: 8 Aug 2000 16:10:38
Message: <399069F1.559F2CD3@accn.org>
Keith Hull wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> Well you should be able to see the Giant Cross that represents the
> Galaxy center and if you render it, it should appear, however the
> following could be wrong....
> 
> There are several reasons that the Galaxy may come out black.....
> 1). You don't have a Camera and light in the scene.

Got those. 

> 2). You haven't unzipped the Galaxy include files and put them in the
> Povray include directory.

Oops. They're in the Moray\Plugins directory.

> 3). You haven't removed the version line in the moray.ini file.

I'll check that out too.

> 4). You have put the galaxy include files in the Moray Povscn dir and
> called
> the scene galaxy.mdl. You can't do this as Moray will overwrite the real
> galaxy.inc files.

Oops again. I didn't know this.

Thank you for your suggestions.

> 
> Chuck Roberts wrote:
> >
> > I have moray 3.2. How do I use the Galaxy plugin? I added a
> > galaxy object and tried setting different colors. But each time I
> > preview it, I just see black. I even put in a red plane to see if
> > I could see any 'invisible' objects. I don't see any galaxy.
> >
> > Perhaps it could be changed so as soon as you drop in a galaxy
> > object you can preview it in Moray and see it.
> >
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-- 
See my Free stuff page. It has compares free website provider,
and lists free internet access providers. 
http://www.crosswinds.net/~robertsc/free.htm
Win98 help file loaded with hints and tips, including securing a
Win 95/98 PC in a classroom setting. VB4 help file with lots of
code and hints. 
At http://www.crosswinds.net/~robertsc/


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