Hi,

I'm completely new at this, sorry.

I tried to render a piece called "The Office".

It said it could not find colors.inc, textures.inc even though they were in
the include folder.

I copied over all the files included with the office.   the first two errors
went away.

Then a new error appeared.  CIE.inc     That file is in the include folder
too but it's not recognized.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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There are several other include files that aren't in Jaime's
scene file.
includes: lightsys4.zip, bookplacer.zip & meshlath.zip
In a big scene like this often things get included twice
which can make pov behave oddly. Try to move all
standardish includes to the main file and comment them
out of other includes.

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Yeah I guess it was dumb to start with one of the most complex renders..

Well I tried a basic one in the LightsysIV folder called
demo_cyndi_cubes.pov

It's giving me the colors.inc error now.  It's in the main POV include
folder.

Can you elaborate a little or direct me to a thread/tutorial on how do
"include" and "comment"?

Thanks!

Chris

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Pigumon wrote:
> I'm completely new at this, sorry.
> 
> I tried to render a piece called "The Office".
> 
> It said it could not find colors.inc, textures.inc even though they were in
> the include folder.

Read
<http://news.povray.org/povray.macintosh/message/%3Ckurtzlepirate-2CAC74.10451409042005%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3Ckurtzlepirate-2CAC74.10451409042005%40news.povray.org%3E>

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Yeah, like Thorsten said, if you just installed POV
check the master povray.ini file.
(select Tools | Edit master POVRAY.INI)
That should open it in notepad.
It should contain a line something like
Library_Path="E:\graphics\POV-Ray for Windows v3.6\INCLUDE"

It's ok to add other paths here as well like...
Library_Path="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts"
Library_Path="E:\graphics\maps"

This is also where you can set the output render directory...
Output_File_Name=e:\graphics\render\

And relocate your scene file directory...
Input_File_Name=e:\graphics\scenes\

And set the image output type...
; use T for un-compressed TGA
; use S for system BMP
; use N for PNG
Output_File_Type=S

Save it all, it should be mostly a one time set up unless you are
doing something you want different.

Additionally it's sometimes required to allow POV script
to access and write files in your scene directory...
(select Options | Script I/O Restrictions | No Restrictions )
(check Options | Script I/O Restrictions | Permit Read/Write
in Current Directory)

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Tim Attwood wrote:
> Yeah, like Thorsten said, if you just installed POV
> check the master povray.ini file.
> (select Tools | Edit master POVRAY.INI)

Please don't confuse him even more :-) There was a very specific reason why
I posted an answer for Macs: The message headers indicated he used a browser
on a mac to post his messages. Assuming he uses Windows and giving him
instructions for that, well you can guess, won't help... ;-)

	Thorsten

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Wow guys,

Thanks for all the help.   Yeah i kinda understood the concept from the PC
answer... but I am more used to the point and click style.. which makes it
extra hard for me to use POV..
(i think the last thing i programmed was a Transformers alphabet on my
commodore 64 back in '85!!)

But thanks to you, i was able to render the example given on the other
link!!!!

It's really great to see people who can easily share their knowledge with
others.

I'm gonna dig around all the menus and see what happens from now on.    =)

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