Hi,

Think this is a bug, has happened three times (across reboots of machine
etc etc). Causes rendering to abort with a bogus (and insulting) error.
POV says
this:

Parsing.....................................................................
...
[snip].................................................
.................Could not find file 'scene_shell.pov'

   #declare yy = yy + incrementy;
   #local indexy = indexy + 1;
  #end (yy <= maxy)
   #local zz = domath(xx,yy) <----ERROR

Tesseract:Apps:Multimedia:3D Apps:renderers:POV-Ray
3:Include:math2.inc:144: error: Cannot open macro file scene_shell.pov.
Check that the file is in a directory specifed with a +L switch
or 'Library_Path=' .INI item.  Standard include files are in the
include directory or folder. Please read your documentation carefully.

'scene_shell.pov' is the scene file (funnily enough), domath is defined in
scene_shell and then again (if it isn't defined) in math2.inc.
[Yes, I've read the manual, and the 3.0, and the 2.2 and the 1.0 manuals
:-) I'm just a beginner, but I know where my towel is. math2.inc *is*, as
shown in the path above, in the standard include directory]

What caused the above (18 minutes into the parse - a big (to me at least)
smooth triangle mesh) was the insertion of an audio CD. Tried it again
(after rebooting, just in case an OS gremlin stabbed POV in the back) -
same result, and again (data CD this time) same result. Interestingly a
floppy doesn't cause the problem (locked or unlocked). Haven't tried other
storage media...

It *always* dies on the same line, hence I think it has something to do
with having the same macro declared in both files. The only other includes
are 'standard' includes.

[I only read C at a snail's pace and haven't even glanced at the source]

Now there's a small chance an extension to my OS is causing the problem,
but I don't have anything running that does anything on insertion of a disk
other than the bult-in audio CD player... which shouldn't affect data CDs.

Machine is a PPC7500 upgraded to a G3@312MHz (512k of backside cache
@124MHz). POV has 27MB of memory allocated and uses about 2/3 of that when
rendering the scene (yes, the scene parses if I don't insert a CD).

So, can anyone else confirm?
What about on 68k machines?

Have Fun
Martin
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