Marc-Hendrik Bremer <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:


> Geoff Wedig schrieb in Nachricht <3ad4a344@news.povray.org>...
>>It's a limited version, that only allows for
>>the basic parsing.  It doesn't allow rotates and translates and such,
>>either.  It'd help if the MP docs were a bit more explicit, yes, but it
>>shouldn't hurt you with normal boxes.

> You are right of course. I don't know for sure but I probably used both
> orders with normal boxes. I meant to mention it in the MP docs - but as this
> is MegaPov, I don't mind if the docs don't cover all. Don't know if this
> limitation will be in Pov 3.5, too, but if so, it should be mentioned.

Definitely

>>Have you tried rerendering with the
>>'corrected' version?  I'm not so certain this is the root cause of the
>>problem.
>>

> Yes, with the correct order of the coordinates everything is allright. It's
> quite an easy shape, so I don't see, what else should cause problems. Well,
> the contained_by-box is quite a bit to large but that is no problem most of
> the time.

I'm glad it works now.  The only time large contained_by boxes are a problem
are with accuracy with some shapes.  I try to keep mine as small as possible
for that reason.

Geoff

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