Hi,

I've a POV-Ray assignment for a 4th year graphics course and so I'm starting
early.

So I've read through the Mac specific documentation.  Then I wrote up the
sample tutorail.  This one

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#include "colors.inc"

background < colour Cyan }

camera {
  location <0, 2, -3>
  look_at <0, 1, 2>
}

sphere {
  <0, 1, 2>, 2
  texture {
    pigment {
      colour Yellow
    }
  }
}

light_source { <2, 4, -3> colour White }

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So I opened the Render options, changed nothing, then did the render
sample.pov menu option and it brings up the render progress dialog box and
just cycles through the barber tube.  It doesn't post any values for the
variables in that progress box nor does anything change in the actual
progress tube.

Any help???

I'm impressed by POV-Ray so far and hope to become a big user of it if I can
get it working.

Thanks

Andrew

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"drew" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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>

change this line:

background < colour Cyan }

to:

background {colour Cyan }

and the scene works fine.

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> change this line:
> 
> background < colour Cyan }
> 
> to:
> 
> background {colour Cyan }
> 
> and the scene works fine.
> 


Thanks for pointing out the typo.  However my problem still exists. The
renderer appears to be doing nothing at all.  No preview window appears, nor
does any feedback occur that it is doing something.

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Ok I changed that one line of code, then upgraded to 3.5.1 and now it
renders.  Well not quite but it moves forward getting this err

Possible Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Could not find file
'OBJECT.POV' 

Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Cannot open input file.

So It was the basic install from POV-Ray (well there is only one install
config) and this is the basic tutorial so any ideas?

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