So I've encountered a few issues running Moray under Windows 10, which 
may or may not be workaround-able.

- 'Render' from within Moray fires up POV 3.5 and starts the render and 
apparently finishes, but locks up POV.  Using 'export' and doing the 
render in POV 3.7 is the current fix I'm using, but I recall being able 
to render the usual way before (from Win10).

- Flaky UV-mapped texture display.  Sometimes it works in regular camera 
view, but not having anything to work with but guesses in the UV editor 
pane in mesh editor mode is...frustrating, to say the least. 
Recommendations?

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Tim Cook

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On 2017-12-17 11:46, Tim Cook wrote:
> - Flaky UV-mapped texture display.  Sometimes it works in regular camera
> view, but not having anything to work with but guesses in the UV editor
> pane in mesh editor mode is...frustrating, to say the least.
> Recommendations?

Figured out part of the problem...in OpenGL settings, scene lighting has 
to be checked, and alpha blending has to be 1.0.

...for some reason the UV map keeps setting itself to 0.5 alpha blending 
for me.

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Tim Cook

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 2017-12-17 11:46, Tim Cook wrote:
> > - Flaky UV-mapped texture display.  Sometimes it works in regular camera
> > view, but not having anything to work with but guesses in the UV editor
> > pane in mesh editor mode is...frustrating, to say the least.
> > Recommendations?
>
> Figured out part of the problem...in OpenGL settings, scene lighting has
> to be checked, and alpha blending has to be 1.0.
>
> ...for some reason the UV map keeps setting itself to 0.5 alpha blending
> for me.

This seems weird, I don't think this is by design :-)

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> So I've encountered a few issues running Moray under Windows 10, which
> may or may not be workaround-able.
>
> - 'Render' from within Moray fires up POV 3.5 and starts the render and
> apparently finishes, but locks up POV.  Using 'export' and doing the
> render in POV 3.7 is the current fix I'm using, but I recall being able
> to render the usual way before (from Win10).
>
How can I export from Moray 3.5 to PovRay 3.7?

Thanks

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On 24-2-2018 18:57, Havana7 wrote:
> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> So I've encountered a few issues running Moray under Windows 10, which
>> may or may not be workaround-able.
>>
>> - 'Render' from within Moray fires up POV 3.5 and starts the render and
>> apparently finishes, but locks up POV.  Using 'export' and doing the
>> render in POV 3.7 is the current fix I'm using, but I recall being able
>> to render the usual way before (from Win10).
>>
> How can I export from Moray 3.5 to PovRay 3.7?
> 

A long time ago I did that last, but just export the scene to POV-Ray 
(version 3.5) and edit it in version 3.7 before rendering. Last time I 
did this was for version 3.6; it may be that more heavy editing is 
needed for 3.7...

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Thomas

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> So I've encountered a few issues running Moray under Windows 10, which
> may or may not be workaround-able.
>
> - 'Render' from within Moray fires up POV 3.5 and starts the render and
> apparently finishes, but locks up POV.  Using 'export' and doing the
> render in POV 3.7 is the current fix I'm using, but I recall being able
> to render the usual way before (from Win10).

How do you export the scene from Moray to PovRay? In the File Menu i have olny
Export to UDO Wireframe.

Thanks?

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On 26-2-2018 13:05, Havana7 wrote:
> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> So I've encountered a few issues running Moray under Windows 10, which
>> may or may not be workaround-able.
>>
>> - 'Render' from within Moray fires up POV 3.5 and starts the render and
>> apparently finishes, but locks up POV.  Using 'export' and doing the
>> render in POV 3.7 is the current fix I'm using, but I recall being able
>> to render the usual way before (from Win10).
> 
> How do you export the scene from Moray to PovRay? In the File Menu i have olny
> Export to UDO Wireframe.
> 
> Thanks?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Sorry. It has been too long ago since I last used Moray for me to 
remember, and I do not have Moray installed any more. However...

Do you have the help files with your copy of Moray? if not, go to 
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/medocs.html. The answer should be there.

-- 
Thomas

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Hello,

I just found this message now. Recently I installed all my toolbox under Windows
10, including POVRay. I can use versions as old as 3.1. I had the same bug of
POVRay "freezing" when it starts the render. I found some workarounds :

- start POVRay in 256-color compatibility mode. When it starts, the splash
screen looks weird and upside down but it works.

OR

- When POVRay is not maximized, uncheck in the Editor menu "Auto-Show Parse
messages".

OR

The problem comes from the message window. It seems to have some
incompatibilities with Windows 10.

When I use POVRay 3.1 or 3.5 in maximized mode, I can still check messages using
the dedicated message window during render without freezing. When it's not
maximized, any message that comes up freezes POV-Ray.

So when export from Moray, be sure POVRay is maximized. At least it works for
me.

Hope it helps.

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"Havana7" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> How do you export the scene from Moray to PovRay? In the File Menu i have olny
> Export to UDO Wireframe.
>
> Thanks?

Crtl-F9, or look under the "Render" menu.

I've been doing this, and it's pretty fast with Sel-Run (Select and Render)
rather than opening and closing the files lots of times, but you don't get to be
able to do texture previews.

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