Hail, everyone. I just had a couple of quick Moray/POVRay questions, and I
figure this is definitely the place to ask them. First off, I would like to
express extreme gratitude to everyone on the Moray team, Moray is a top
notch program. I am ashamed to admit that I have gone over 30 days w/o
registering, but I will, as soon as I have some money. Thankfully, it is not
crippleware, as hand coding an entire scene is.. well.. tiresome. I don't
mind (too much) doing the animation stuff by hand, but to hand code every
shape and texture... urk.  OK, enough blabbing, time for the questions.

    I downloaded and installed a few of the available plug-ins (City,
Galaxy, Columns) the other day, and as of yesterday, Moray wouldn't render
the scenes properly. For some reason, POV does a quick display of the last
rendered version, and returns an error.. "Continue Trace Error; Error
reading aborted data file" I am attempting to uninstall and reinstall at
this moment, and hoping that clears the problem. If anyone can help me
figure out why this happened, and how I can avoid a repeat, it would be much
appreciated.

My second question is if anyone knows if it is possible to minimize the
amount of stars in the galaxy object, to achieve a nebula type of effect.

If anyone wants/needs more info, please mail me.

--
Krystian

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Hi Krystian,
I think you probably have the "continue previous render" checked in the moray
render options menu - just uncheck it and all should be well.

Best Regards,

Keith

Krystian Bates wrote:

> Hail, everyone. I just had a couple of quick Moray/POVRay questions, and I
> figure this is definitely the place to ask them. First off, I would like to
> express extreme gratitude to everyone on the Moray team, Moray is a top
> notch program. I am ashamed to admit that I have gone over 30 days w/o
> registering, but I will, as soon as I have some money. Thankfully, it is not
> crippleware, as hand coding an entire scene is.. well.. tiresome. I don't
> mind (too much) doing the animation stuff by hand, but to hand code every
> shape and texture... urk.  OK, enough blabbing, time for the questions.
>
>     I downloaded and installed a few of the available plug-ins (City,
> Galaxy, Columns) the other day, and as of yesterday, Moray wouldn't render
> the scenes properly. For some reason, POV does a quick display of the last
> rendered version, and returns an error.. "Continue Trace Error; Error
> reading aborted data file" I am attempting to uninstall and reinstall at
> this moment, and hoping that clears the problem. If anyone can help me
> figure out why this happened, and how I can avoid a repeat, it would be much
> appreciated.
>
> My second question is if anyone knows if it is possible to minimize the
> amount of stars in the galaxy object, to achieve a nebula type of effect.
>
> If anyone wants/needs more info, please mail me.
>
> --
> Krystian

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Krystian Bates wrote:

> My second question is if anyone knows if it is possible to minimize the
> amount of stars in the galaxy object, to achieve a nebula type of effect.
>
> If anyone wants/needs more info, please mail me.
>

Hi Krystian

I think there are two errors - one in my PlugIn as I don't allow the
galaxy_bgstars to be false and one in Chris' Galaxy.inc file I think? I found
that hand editing the Pov scene file did not get rid of the stars! So further
investigation showed that the random options were overwriting the
galaxy_bgstars, galaxy_bgnebula, and the galaxy_nebula_sphere options.

To correct it you can replace the following ......
// SELECT RANDOM GALAXY.BG OPTIONS
// *******************************
#declare galaxy_bgstars = 1 + int(rand(_GX_rand) * 5.99);
#declare galaxy_bgnebula = min(1 + int(rand(_GX_rand) * 10), 6);
#declare galaxy_nebula_sphere = 1 + int(rand(_GX_rand) * 4.99);


with....

// SELECT RANDOM GALAXY.BG OPTIONS
// *******************************
#ifndef (galaxy_bgstars)   #declare galaxy_bgstars = 1 + int(rand(_GX_rand) *
5.99);#end
#ifndef (galaxy_bgnebula)    #declare galaxy_bgnebula = min(1 +
int(rand(_GX_rand) * 10), 6);   #end
#ifndef (galaxy_nebula_sphere)    #declare galaxy_nebula_sphere = 1 +
int(rand(_GX_rand) * 4.99);   #end

in the galaxy.inc file.

I'm afraid you will have to wait for another version of the PlugIn tho' as I'm a
bit busy at the moment. I'll try to get something on my Web Site by Friday night
(UK time).

Best Regards,

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Thanks for the help, and the plug-in(s).. They are excellent, and very
helpful to me.. I'm lazy, and would rather not code things myself I can help
it..
                                                --Krystian

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Hi Krystian and Chris

>So further investigation showed that the random options were overwriting the
galaxy_bgstars,
>galaxy_bgnebula, and the galaxy_nebula_sphere options.

Silly me ;-) I was including the galaxy.inc file which I shouldn't do if the
Background, Starfield or Objects are setup. So many apologies to Chris.

If you have modified your version of the galaxy.inc file please put it back as
it was, as I've added the following options to the PlugIn.....

In the Galaxy.inc options
if any of the following are enabled the Galaxy.inc file is not included
Enable BG
Enable Objects
Enable Starfield

In the Galaxy BackGrounds Options
Stars, Nebula, and Nebula Sphere can now be 0 to disable them.

In the Galaxy Objects Options
There is now an option for Object Name and Cluster Name to be 'None' so
disabling that option.

Also 3 bugs squashed concerning the Debug and Declare_Only options.

Again many apologies to Chris (I really should read the documentation more
carefully).

If anybody wants the galaxy.inc file to be included anyway (to get random
effects) I can put an option in to include it if you like - just let me know.

Best Regards,

Keith


Krystian Bates wrote:

> Thanks for the help, and the plug-in(s).. They are excellent, and very
> helpful to me.. I'm lazy, and would rather not code things myself I can help
> it..
>                                                 --Krystian

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OK.. now one more question, how recent is the latest plug-in? Maybe I'll
just get off my lazy ass and look ;) Once again, thanks to everyone who
writes these awesome plug-ins.. now stop it, you're spoiling me. I'll never
want to hand edit again ;)

                                                    Krystian

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