I have a strange problem where I can render pre-made POV-RAY files, but
Moray scene files don't work. So.. here's the message I get in the POV-RAY
status window:

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Messages cleared.
Rendering started by GUI extension
Preset INI file is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS
V3.5\RENDERER\QUICKRES.INI', section is '[512x384, No AA]'.
Preset source file is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\MORAY FOR
WINDOWS\POVSCN\Jungle_Tek.INI'.
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.5 win32 (.icl)
  This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team. See the
   documentation on how to contact the authors or visit us on the
   internet at http://www.povray.org/.
Copyright 1991-2002 POV-Ray Team(tm)
This Windows version by Christopher J. Cason
Command Line Error: Unrecognized output file format X.


Returned from renderer with error status

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I'm using the latest version of Moray too... is there some config switch
that I missed? I've checked FAQ's and help files to no avail. Any help
would be appreciated... I've come back to ray-tracing after a long
abscence, and would love to be creating things, but can't seem to get them
to render yet. TIA.

Matt

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Probably the thing to do is check for a line in the file stating
Output_File_Type= and put a S (for system default, such as bmp in Windows)
or T (for Targa) or N (for png) at the end. I suppose it could be in your
jungle_tek.ini but I don't use Moray so I have no idea what or how it adds
stuff.

The quickres.ini doesn't start off with any file types until you edit that,
and unlikely the povray.ini (both are in pov-ray\renderer\) could have it
misset either. No harm in checking them though. In the meantime you can put
+fs (+f being the output file switch followed by type abrev. same as for ini
files) into the command-line box of POV-Ray itself to try and be sure it is
used since it *should* override a Moray setting, if any.

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Jungle_Tek <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Command Line Error: Unrecognized output file format X.

  There's a line in some .ini file somewhere which has 'X' as the output
format for something (I think it was cpu histogram or something like that).
Just remove the X and it will work.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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