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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