Greetings!

There is a problem with POV-Ray Beta 13 I want to mention now.

The scene contains around six image files, half for sphererical textures and 
half for bumps. Most of these image files have sizes over 16 MB.

I am starting the render, and POV-Ray begins to parse the scene, also to 
process the various image files. For some reasons, I decided to press the 
STOP button. And here now, while parsing, POV-Ray crashes with an error 
message that it cannot read the memory. The crash happens only if I press 
the STOP button while POV-Ray parses (probably parses the images).

My system:
Windows EX Media Edition
Dual Intel Pentium 4 CPU @ 3.06 GH
1.25 GB DDR RAM @ 333 MH

Greetings,

Sven

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Sven Littkowski wrote:
> I am starting the render, and POV-Ray begins to parse the scene, also to 
> process the various image files. For some reasons, I decided to press the 
> STOP button. And here now, while parsing, POV-Ray crashes with an error 
> message that it cannot read the memory. The crash happens only if I press 
> the STOP button while POV-Ray parses (probably parses the images).

Hi,

It would help us if you can whittle the problem down to a minimal scene and
post it in the beta-test.binaries group.

thanks,

-- Chris

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Sure. It will have the same headline for easier recognition. But what I 
recognize is that this seems to happen only with relatively large image 
files.

The scene which causes the crash is a simple scene, I will post the original 
code. Maybe I am also posting those images which are small, otherwise I am 
just adding (as comment) their file size in order to enable you use other 
files of an equivalent size.

If nothing helps, I might have to offer to e-mail the original image files 
to an address specified by you, but the upload would take a long time, so I 
am not too eager for that solution. Only as last option.

Greetings,

Sven



"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> schrieb im 
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> It would help us if you can whittle the problem down to a minimal scene 
> and
> post it in the beta-test.binaries group.

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"Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote in message
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> Sure. It will have the same headline for easier recognition. But what I
> recognize is that this seems to happen only with relatively large image
> files.
>
> The scene which causes the crash is a simple scene, I will post the original
> code. Maybe I am also posting those images which are small, otherwise I am
> just adding (as comment) their file size in order to enable you use other
> files of an equivalent size.
>
> If nothing helps, I might have to offer to e-mail the original image files
> to an address specified by you, but the upload would take a long time, so I
> am not too eager for that solution. Only as last option.

I just tried to replicate the problem, and while I can't get it to crash per se,
I can reliably cause a VC++ runtime error.  An example of this (which I think is
completely unrelated to the problem you're having) can be found, with an example
image, in beta-test.binaries.

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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