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30 Jul 2024 10:12:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: landscape.pov in beta 8  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 1 Dec 2001 03:58:50
Message: <WCayvLApoJC8EwKI@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Jide who wrote:
>Athlon, 512 Mb ram, Win ME, beta 8
>
>Landscape.pov in the advanced dir gives the following errors
>if #declare use_iso=true;
>
>Rendering Error: Problem in Evaluate_TPat.
>
>Returned from renderer with error status
>
>If you try it 4 times in a row Pov crashes.
>The message box says:
>Rendering Error: Out of memory. Cannot allocate 2056 bytes for fn: stack.


This appears to be an instance of "if an isosurface is the first
function parsed, then things go horribly wrong".

A workround is to add "#declare foo=function{0}" at the top of the
scene.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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