I am using POV-RAY for the first time and am having exactly the problem 
you described.  I can only get up to 5 frames to render.  I am using a 
dual 867 Mhz machine, and the same thing happens in OS X and OS 9. Have 
you found a solution to the problem? Thanks for any ideas you might have.

John

Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed POV-Ray.  I am using OS 10.2 (I saw the 
> warning about opening files, so I am working around that). 
> I have tried several of the animation examples that are included and 
> each time POV-Ray just locks up.  My pointer goes to the spinning "busy" 
> circle, and POV-Ray stops responding to anything.  I can then just kill 
> the application, but can't do anything else.
> I have tried doing animations in two different ways.  First I loaded one 
> of the examples, by dragging the file into the Render queue, then 
> started the Render queue to open the file (and render a frame).  Next I 
> then changed the render settings for the examples to use the INI file.  
> I then selected render, and I get the busy spinning icon, with no 
> indication of any progress.
> I also tried loading a different example animation the same way as 
> above.  Then I manually changed the setting for the object to animation 
> and put in some numbers (the same as what was in the INI).  This time 
> the progress window opened, but I got no indication of any progress, and 
> POV-Ray again locked up.  Although this time I got 6 images in the same 
> directory (named bounce1 -bouce 6) then no additional frames, or 
> indication of any progress.
> Again, I had to force quit.
> I am running on a dual G4 1GHz machine, if that matters.  Does this 
> relate to the OS 10.2 bug that you mentioned?
> I was about to send this email, but decided to try one other thing.  I 
> changed it to only render 4 frames, and then it seemed to work fine.  I 
> then tried 10 frames, and it did a few then locked up again.  Seems very 
> strange to me.
> 
> Please let me know if there is anything that I can do, or what bugs 
> might exist to cause this.
> 
> I also tried getting info on the POV-Ray executable and set the flag to 
> have it open in Classic.  But when I then double clicked on it, it still 
> open in OS X, so I was not able to try it that way.  Any idea why that 
> is?
> 
> 
> Thanks much,
> and I am very excited about this program.  Very nice work!
> 
> 
> --Adam
> der### [at] alummitedu

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