I've been having similar problems with a wide range of triangle meshes, from
a variety of programs and pov code.

Poser and organica files seem to be immune.

Mick

edna dornblazer <hac### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
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> in SuperPatch version of parse.c, in the function
> Parse_Mesh(), there is the line
> number_of_vertices=0;
>
> then in parsing of 'plain' (non-smooth) triangles,
> nothing is done to number_of_vertices.
> Looking down at the smooth_triangle mesh code,
> number_of_vertices is set for smooth_triangles
> by calling
> Mesh_Hash_Vertex(&number_of_vertices,
> &max_vertices,
> &Vertices, P1);
> but Mesh_Hash_Vertex(&number_of_vertices,...) is
> not called for plain triangles.
>
> But then later there is:
> Object->Data->Vertices =
>           (SNGL_VECT
> *)POV_MALLOC(number_of_vertices*sizeof(SNGL_VECT),     "triangle mesh
> data");
>
> and POV-Ray stops for trying to malloc zero bytes.
>
> Now, what I did, and it is working, is just stick in some
> Mesh_Hash_Vertex(&number_of_vertices,
> &max_vertices,
> &Vertices, P1);
> for plain triangles.
>
> Comments / condemnations ??

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