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From: Dan Connelly
Subject: X-display OR'ed with background
Date: 30 Sep 2008 12:09:47
Message: <48e24f4b$1@news.povray.org>
My X-display is OR'ed with my background.  In other words, on a black background, it
displays normally.  On a white background, it is white, displaying none of the actual
image features.

I'm running 3.6.  On 3.7-beta, it compiled without an X preview window at all
(although 3.7 beta crashes too often for general use, and doesn't handle media, which
is documented).

The generated PNG is fine.

Have others experienced this?

thanks,
Dan


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: X-display OR'ed with background
Date: 30 Sep 2008 12:17:48
Message: <48e2512c$1@news.povray.org>
Dan Connelly nous illumina en ce 2008-09-30 12:10 -->
> My X-display is OR'ed with my background.  In other words, on a black 
> background, it displays normally.  On a white background, it is white, 
> displaying none of the actual image features.
> 
> I'm running 3.6.  On 3.7-beta, it compiled without an X preview window 
> at all (although 3.7 beta crashes too often for general use, and doesn't 
> handle media, which is documented).
> 
> The generated PNG is fine.
> 
> Have others experienced this?
> 
> thanks,
> Dan
Not on windows. But I suspect that "X-display" is for Linux. I can't tell more.

-- 
Alain
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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: X-display OR'ed with background
Date: 30 Sep 2008 12:30:01
Message: <web.48e2536f4a0471d8773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>
Dan Connelly <djc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> My X-display is OR'ed with my background.  In other words, on a black background, it
displays normally.  On a white b
ackground, it is white, displaying none of the actual image features.
>
> I'm running 3.6.  On 3.7-beta, it compiled without an X preview window at all
(although 3.7 beta crashes too often fo
r general use, and doesn't handle media, which is documented).
>
> The generated PNG is fine.
>
> Have others experienced this?

Yes.  Search the povray unix newsgroups for workarounds.  There's a command-line
switch in povray itself if I'm not wrong.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: X-display OR'ed with background
Date: 30 Sep 2008 20:56:36
Message: <48e2cac3@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Yes.  Search the povray unix newsgroups for workarounds.  There's a
> command-line switch in povray itself if I'm not wrong.

Along with +d to enable display, use -visual DirectColor.


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