I have just started a little scene from scratch with 2 include files
that I know well. When I start to render this scene, povray is in fact
rendering a other scene. I can read in the message window that it is
executing the right scene but that in the parsing options the input file
is the other file which is actually rendered.

Has anybody an idea on what is going on ? Do I have a "crazy" povray ?
How to correct those things ?


Thanks

Charles

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One thing that I came across the other day is that if you
have two copies of an include file, one in your current dir
(the directory that the .POV file is in) and another version
of the inc file in the include directory, then POV will use
the file that is in the same dir as the .POV file.  

I discovered this by making changes on an include file in a
text editor and saving the changes, nothing that I seemed to
do was having any effect on the object, finally I decided to
have a look around my HD to see if I had another copy of the
inc file and there it was, in the same directory as my .POV
file, I deleted it and the problem went away.  

Hope this helps. 

Charles & Paula wrote:
> 
> I have just started a little scene from scratch with 2 include files
> that I know well. When I start to render this scene, povray is in fact
> rendering a other scene. I can read in the message window that it is
> executing the right scene but that in the parsing options the input file
> is the other file which is actually rendered.
> 
> Has anybody an idea on what is going on ? Do I have a "crazy" povray ?
> How to correct those things ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles

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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 18:56:38 +0100, Charles & Paula <pcd### [at] cybercablefr>
wrote:

>I have just started a little scene from scratch with 2 include files
>that I know well. When I start to render this scene, povray is in fact
>rendering a other scene. I can read in the message window that it is
>executing the right scene but that in the parsing options the input file
>is the other file which is actually rendered.

  Charles, on earlier, pre-v3.1g versions of POV-Ray for Windows there was a
problem with re-initiating command line parameters after a render. If this
is the case here, and you are using an older version, try installing the
latest bugfixed version.

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