I am unable to get the lens flare macro to show up in the attached 
scene. What am I doing wrong?

It's a 6 frame animation. The lens flare should appear over the sun in 
frame 3 out of 6.

Thank you.


Mike

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Download 'lens_flare_test.pov.txt' (4 KB)

At first, I thought the code was only producing a 5-frame animation, then
crasing on frame 6-- until I changed my INI file's animation setting to
Initial_Frame=0  ;-)  I usually start at 1, the default.

I do see a tiny planet sphere on frame 3-- but I had to comment-out your
        #include Lens_Mod.inc
to get the scene to run, as that include file is not part of Chris Colefax's
Lens Flare macros at
      http://www.oocities.org/ccolefax/lenseffects.html

I don't have CIE.inc or lightsys.inc, so I ran the scene without those. I assume
that they are not necessary for the lens flare effect(?)

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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I had to comment-out your
>         #include Lens_Mod.inc
> to get the scene to run, as that include file is not part of Chris Colefax's
> Lens Flare macros...

I replaced that .inc file with Chris's LNSEFCTS.inc ; maybe that's what you
meant to #include?

Now, on frame 3, the render turns pure white. Is that what you're seeing as
well?

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On 2/18/2021 5:32 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I had to comment-out your
>>          #include Lens_Mod.inc
>> to get the scene to run, as that include file is not part of Chris Colefax's
>> Lens Flare macros...
> 
> I replaced that .inc file with Chris's LNSEFCTS.inc ; maybe that's what you
> meant to #include?
> 
> Now, on frame 3, the render turns pure white. Is that what you're seeing as
> well?
> 
> 
> 

Sorry about that.

I think you're supposed to replace it with LENS.INC.

I don't get a white screen.


Mike

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On 2/18/2021 4:55 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> I don't have CIE.inc or lightsys.inc, so I ran the scene without those. I assume
> that they are not necessary for the lens flare effect(?)

You are correct.


Mike

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On 2/19/2021 8:06 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On 2/18/2021 5:32 PM, Kenneth wrote:
>> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> I had to comment-out your

>>> to get the scene to run, as that include file is not part of Chris 
>>> Colefax's
>>> Lens Flare macros...
>>
>> I replaced that .inc file with Chris's LNSEFCTS.inc ; maybe that's 
>> what you
>> meant to #include?
>>
>> Now, on frame 3, the render turns pure white. Is that what you're 
>> seeing as
>> well?
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Sorry about that.
> 
> I think you're supposed to replace it with LENS.INC.
> 
> I don't get a white screen.
> 
> 
> Mike


The problem was with the camera code. I had the Camera_Location and 
Camera_LookAt set incorrectly.


Mike

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