A few questions if I may?

  For my present WIP I'm using ac3d a fair bit for some simple modelling, and over
the last couple of days, PoV has changed a few characters or numbers in the ac3d
mesh code. For example, it will change a digit for a $ sign, or it might say that
"...an expected (whatever)... but > found instead", when it *IS* there and should
be there anyway, or the other day it changed 'smooth_triangle' for
'smogth_triangle'.

These aren't really a problem as all I have to do is change back to a previous
digit or letter.

     It's a near 8Mb file so far and my main questions are; how far, and how big
(filesize wise) can I go?

       What can PoV handle?

      I have a feeling that it's the filesize that's doing this?

     My worry is that although the image looks fine at the moment, I fear that
after using some media and possibly other time-intensive code like focal_blur, I
may never get the image to render in the end because also a few days ago PoV
crashed and I lost most of the code I was working on, (it went back about 8
stages!) Luckily, I had already saved a .jpg image of the scene, so I used it for
reference, and the ac3d files weren't affected, so I could still use them.

     Any comments?

     ~Steve~

   PS. Quick tip for any new-users out there who might be creating large filesize
scenes; use 'select all' and copy and paste into a new file and then name the file
using a different name like 'myfile2.pov'. It will save you a lot of hassle if you
encounter problems like I have!  ;)

   PPS. For PoV admin; 'Tips and Tricks' forum?

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St. wrote:
>      Any comments?

  I've seen this extact same behavior: when my CPU was burning... 
literally. It died some week latter. No kidding! :(

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org

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"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
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> St. wrote:
> >      Any comments?
>
>   I've seen this extact same behavior: when my CPU was burning...
> literally. It died some week latter. No kidding! :(

   I believe you, honest!  :)  But I think I know my kit now, and it ain't gonna
happen Jaime, everything else works fine, no problems.

 However, if you don't see me around in a couple of weeks time, please send out a
search party...  I'll be over there somewhere   >>>    frantically waving a PoV
flag...   ;)

     ~Steve~


>
> --
> Jaime Vives Piqueres
>
> La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
> http://www.ignorancia.org

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Are you overclocking your CPU?  I have seen such glitches in those cases.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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"St." wrote:
> 
>    A few questions if I may?
> 
>   For my present WIP I'm using ac3d a fair bit for some simple modelling, and over
> the last couple of days, PoV has changed a few characters or numbers in the ac3d
> mesh code. For example, it will change a digit for a $ sign, or it might say that
> "...an expected (whatever)... but > found instead", when it *IS* there and should
> be there anyway, or the other day it changed 'smooth_triangle' for
> 'smogth_triangle'.

I used to have that problem with the POV-Ray v3.0 editor but I have never seen
this happen with the CodeMax editor released with POV-Ray v3.1. I've loaded
100mb files without problems in the CodeMax editor so I know file size is not
to blame. It might be a memory problem on your machine or perhaps like the
others have said your processor is having problems.

When I had problems with the v3.0 editor I would close the program after every
3 saves and that kept me from having the character replacement problem you
described above. This is just a bandaid for the real problem though, whatever
that is.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> "St." wrote:

 >....or the other day it changed 'smooth_triangle' for 'smogth_triangle'.

>
> I used to have that problem with the POV-Ray v3.0 editor but I have never seen
> this happen with the CodeMax editor released with POV-Ray v3.1. I've loaded
> 100mb files without problems in the CodeMax editor so I know file size is not
> to blame. It might be a memory problem on your machine or perhaps like the
> others have said your processor is having problems.
>
> When I had problems with the v3.0 editor I would close the program after every
> 3 saves and that kept me from having the character replacement problem you
> described above. This is just a bandaid for the real problem though, whatever
> that is.

      Thanks for that Ken, I think you may be right with the memory. I remember a
couple of years ago I was getting little glitches in other programmes until I
upped from a 64Mb stick and added another 128Mb alongside it. That seemed to cure
all problems back then.

    ~Steve~

>
> --
> Ken Tyler

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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>     Are you overclocking your CPU?  I have seen such glitches in those cases.

       No, it's running at what it should be, 600Mhz, 192Mb RAM. I think it's a
memory issue.

       ~Steve~


>
> Cheers!
>
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
>
>
>

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Try docmem:

http://www.simmtester.com/PAGE/products/doc/docinfo.asp

It's free and will allow you to thoroughly test your memory.  When I have
your kind of problem, docmem is waht I use to ferret out the cause.


Jim

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"Jim Kress" <nos### [at] kressworkscom> wrote in message
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> Try docmem:

Jim, passed over to O-T.


     ~Steve~


> Jim

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