Greetings,

I'm a new user to Moray, and I have encountered a problem:

I have used Rhino to model a fairly complex scene.  I exported to .udo
format, producing a 224 meg include file (!).  After some brief fiddling
with the light sources and camera angle, I applied a wood material to
the entire .udo and performed a few test renders to fine tune the
camera.  Then I began to texture the scene, using a couple of Moray's
library textures, but mostly editing my own, with image and bump maps,
etc.  Everything looked good until render time, when POV died with the
following message:

     //   $MRY$:  'floor'

     #declare floor  <----ERROR

     destroy.inc:238:  error:  undeclared identifier expected but float
function 'floor' found instead

     Returned from rendered (non-zero return value)


Obviously floor is the name of one of my custom textures and destroy is
the name of the Moray .mdl.  I went in and looked at the destroy.inc,
and the floor entry doesnt really look any different than any of the
others.

I'm using the most recent version of both Moray and POV.

What in the name of polluted pixels am I doing wrong??

Thanks,

J R

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If you have spaces in your texture or object names, take them out and make
it all one word.  I've had this problem before.

-Ian

Johannes Riechart <ant### [at] pcsrockcom> wrote in message
news:373F242A.5D59A9A6@pcsrock.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I'm a new user to Moray, and I have encountered a problem:
>
> I have used Rhino to model a fairly complex scene.  I exported to .udo
> format, producing a 224 meg include file (!).  After some brief fiddling
> with the light sources and camera angle, I applied a wood material to
> the entire .udo and performed a few test renders to fine tune the
> camera.  Then I began to texture the scene, using a couple of Moray's
> library textures, but mostly editing my own, with image and bump maps,
> etc.  Everything looked good until render time, when POV died with the
> following message:
>
>      //   $MRY$:  'floor'
>
>      #declare floor  <----ERROR
>
>      destroy.inc:238:  error:  undeclared identifier expected but float
> function 'floor' found instead
>
>      Returned from rendered (non-zero return value)
>
>
> Obviously floor is the name of one of my custom textures and destroy is
> the name of the Moray .mdl.  I went in and looked at the destroy.inc,
> and the floor entry doesnt really look any different than any of the
> others.
>
> I'm using the most recent version of both Moray and POV.
>
> What in the name of polluted pixels am I doing wrong??
>
> Thanks,
>
> J R
>

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Ian,

I went and double checked the texture and object names to be sure... that's
not the problem.

Any other guesses?

Thanks

J R


Ian Burgmyer wrote:

> If you have spaces in your texture or object names, take them out and make
> it all one word.  I've had this problem before.
>
> -Ian
>

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Now this is a huge guess, but maybe the file didn't export properly.  If you
would, send me the POV file (it's in "Program Files\Moray for
Windows\PovScn\") and I may be able to see the problem.

-Ian

>
> Ian,
>
> I went and double checked the texture and object names to be sure...
that's
> not the problem.
>
> Any other guesses?
>
> Thanks
>
> J R
>
>
> Ian Burgmyer wrote:
>
> > If you have spaces in your texture or object names, take them out and
make
> > it all one word.  I've had this problem before.
> >
> > -Ian
> >
>

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Ian,

consider it mailed.

Thanks,

J R

Ian Burgmyer wrote:

> Now this is a huge guess, but maybe the file didn't export properly.  If you
> would, send me the POV file (it's in "Program Files\Moray for
> Windows\PovScn\") and I may be able to see the problem.
>
> -Ian
>
> >
> > Ian,
> >
> > I went and double checked the texture and object names to be sure...
> that's
> > not the problem.
> >
> > Any other guesses?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > J R
> >
> >
> > Ian Burgmyer wrote:
> >
> > > If you have spaces in your texture or object names, take them out and
> make
> > > it all one word.  I've had this problem before.
> > >
> > > -Ian
> > >
> >

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Johannes Riechart wrote:
> 
>      //   $MRY$:  'floor'
> 
>      #declare floor  <----ERROR
> 
>      destroy.inc:238:  error:  undeclared identifier expected but float
> function 'floor' found instead
> 

"floor" is a reserved word in POV-Ray.  Change the name to something else
and you won't see this error anymore.

-Nathan

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Nathan,

Thanks a bunch for the tip-- I renamed the material and it worked perfectly.
Any other reserved words I should watch out for?  Or maybe read the
documentation a little more thoroughly  :-( !!

Thanks again,

J R


Nathan Kopp wrote:

>
>
> "floor" is a reserved word in POV-Ray.  Change the name to something else
> and you won't see this error anymore.
>
> -Nathan

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Johannes Riechart wrote:
> 
> Nathan,
> 
> Thanks a bunch for the tip-- I renamed the material and it worked perfectly.
> Any other reserved words I should watch out for?  Or maybe read the
> documentation a little more thoroughly  :-( !!
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> J R

  The povray docs have an entire section devoted to detailing the
reserved keywords that is uses as instructions. It should not be
too difficult to locate but it certainly takes quite a while to
remember them all (or the majority of them). I thought I had heard
them all but the "floor" keyword floored me when I read Nathans
reply to you. What the word floor has to with math operators is
anyones guess but it is in the list. I guess it's time "I" RTFM !
  You can easily avoid any chance of having this happen again if you
always make sure your #declare identifiers are capitolized in the
first letter. You could have #declare Floor and be all right and I
often see #declare Sphere which is also exceptable because of the
capitolization of the first letter.




-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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On Sun, 16 May 1999 20:13:21 -0700, Johannes Riechart
<ant### [at] pcsrockcom> wrote:

>Any other reserved words I should watch out for?  Or maybe read the
>documentation a little more thoroughly  :-( !!

  Section 4.1.1 of the POV-Ray docs has a list of the reserved
keywords...

  Good catch, Nathan!
-- 
Alan
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'ceil' also exists, goes with 'floor' somehow I guess. What I didn't find
anything on is 'track'.


Ken wrote:
> 
> Johannes Riechart wrote:
> >
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Thanks a bunch for the tip-- I renamed the material and it worked perfectly.
> > Any other reserved words I should watch out for?  Or maybe read the
> > documentation a little more thoroughly  :-( !!
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > J R
> 
>   The povray docs have an entire section devoted to detailing the
> reserved keywords that is uses as instructions. It should not be
> too difficult to locate but it certainly takes quite a while to
> remember them all (or the majority of them). I thought I had heard
> them all but the "floor" keyword floored me when I read Nathans
> reply to you. What the word floor has to with math operators is
> anyones guess but it is in the list. I guess it's time "I" RTFM !
>   You can easily avoid any chance of having this happen again if you
> always make sure your #declare identifiers are capitolized in the
> first letter. You could have #declare Floor and be all right and I
> often see #declare Sphere which is also exceptable because of the
> capitolization of the first letter.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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