While rendering the insert menu items, I had to stop for some reason. When I
chose "continue Images.pov" it started to run and then stopped giving me an
error :

File: Images.pov Line: 16

#switch (Switch <---- ERROR

Parse Error: Expected 'numeric expression', undeclared identifier 'Switch'
found instead.

   ----------------------

I assume it can be worked around and will look at it, but I wanted to let
y'all know.

Win98
POV Beta 1
PII 400

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I never had a reason to stop the renders since it finishes within some 20
minutes or so.  Hadn't expected anyone would stop and continue the traces.
Simple oversight of us pre-beta testers, sorry.

It's done similar to animation in that Switch is defined as an integer count
which is taking place and gets sent to the images.ini file which in turn
tells the images.pov how to render the file based on parameters set under
each labeled (numbered) block.

Unfortunately the block selection all seems to take place in the POV source
code so maybe only Chris Cason might be the only one who knows if there's a
way to continue them.
I know you can choose a single one at a time anyhow, by using the images.ini
and selecting the appropriate number for the preview you want to do.  That
means checking into the specific scene file for what number relates to which
preview.  There isn't a list.

Bob H.

"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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> While rendering the insert menu items, I had to stop for some reason. When
I
> chose "continue Images.pov" it started to run and then stopped giving me
an
> error :
>
> File: Images.pov Line: 16
>
> #switch (Switch <---- ERROR
>
> Parse Error: Expected 'numeric expression', undeclared identifier 'Switch'
> found instead.
>
>    ----------------------
>
> I assume it can be worked around and will look at it, but I wanted to let
> y'all know.
>
> Win98
> POV Beta 1
> PII 400
>
>

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"Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> I never had a reason to stop the renders since it finishes within some 20
> minutes or so.  Hadn't expected anyone would stop and continue the traces.
> Simple oversight of us pre-beta testers, sorry.

    I just set it to start over, but it takes a little longer than 20
minutes on my computer. It's on 103 right now and it's been working over an
hour.

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"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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> While rendering the insert menu items, I had to stop for some reason. When I
> chose "continue Images.pov" it started to run and then stopped giving me an
> error :

Bill,

The insert menu items are 'special'; you can't continue them or basically do
anything other than use the built-in menu option to render the lot (unless
you want to fiddle with INI options on the command-line).

If enough folk want the larger menu items, I'll add them to the download page
at povray.org to save the need for them to be re-rendered.

-- Chris

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Chris Cason schrieb:
> 
> The insert menu items are 'special'; you can't continue them or basically do
> anything other than use the built-in menu option to render the lot (unless
> you want to fiddle with INI options on the command-line).

I changed the INI-file settings of

\Programme\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\Insert Menu

from (last line of each image) "+fs" to "+fs +c". So I can
continue their rendering anytime I want.

BTW they take almost three hours to render on my machine...

Markus

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