Greetings! I've been a POV user since 1994, although I've been on a three 
hiatus. I can't get POV 3.5 to use photon maps. I've got the photon{} block 
in global settings, and the proper photon{} blocks in the light_source, as 
well as target keywords, etc as appropriate in the objects. I'm getting no 
warnings or errors, it's simply skipping the photon step.

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> I've got the photon{} block
> in global settings, and the proper photon{} blocks in the light_source, as
> well as target keywords, etc as appropriate in the objects. I'm getting no
> warnings or errors, it's simply skipping the photon step.


Can you reduce your code to a small scene file that demonstrates the
problem, and then show us?

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> > I've got the photon{} block
> > in global settings, and the proper photon{} blocks in the light_source, as
> > well as target keywords, etc as appropriate in the objects. I'm getting no
> > warnings or errors, it's simply skipping the photon step.
>
>
> Can you reduce your code to a small scene file that demonstrates the
> problem, and then show us?
>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

I have this problem as well, with both 3.5 and 3.6.  It doesn't happen all
the time, but once it starts all I can do is close POV and restart it to
build photon maps.  When I reboot the problem goes away for a while and
then pops up again.  Frustrating to say the least.

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