My POVRay has expired while I was waiting for MoRay to update. I
think it was vers.3.1 (for Windows95). I'd never used this kind
of software before, so I started learning with MoRay to make the
wireframes, but it told me I didn't have POVRay, though I did
and I had opened it and tried the demo to check if it worked.
Now I have a finished piece ready to render and --no POVRay!  I
never got to use it at all. I don't have the brains or the
inclination to do  ...what do you call it? Text-modelling?  But
my eye for 3-D spacials is exceptional and I really enjoy it.

I have since learned that my timing was atrocious.  I even went
the "hopeless-and-still-hoping" route of uninstalling POVRay and
reinstalling it!  <sigh>  I've uninstalled it again, of course.

Is there any hope that I may be able to download a functional
copy of POVRay that will not be expired and that *will* work
with MoRay??

Sorry to say I have been badly spamburnt too many times, so if
you are a kind soul who will email me an answer please send it
to

x0x### [at] my-dejanewscom  (the 0 is a number)

and you will have my gratitude.

TIA   ~  jann

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xOtix wrote:

> Is there any hope that I may be able to download a functional
> copy of POVRay that will not be expired and that *will* work
> with MoRay??
>
> Sorry to say I have been badly spamburnt too many times, so if
> you are a kind soul who will email me an answer please send it
> to  x0x### [at] my-dejanewscom  (the 0 is a number)
>
> and you will have my gratitude.
>
> TIA   ~  jann

    I have good news for you. Your copy of Pov-Ray was a beta
test version that was intentionaly crippled because the final
version was due out in a short time. That final version has been
released and can be downloaded at:

http://www.povray.org

This version is not time limited and should last you forever,
well almost anyway.

Ken Tyler

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Ken wrote in message <361DBA04.77F6747B@pacbell.net>...

>
>    I have good news for you. Your copy of Pov-Ray was a beta
>test version that was intentionaly crippled because the final
>version was due out in a short time. That final version has
been
>released and can be downloaded at:
>
>http://www.povray.org
>
>This version is not time limited and should last you forever,
>well almost anyway.
>
>Ken Tyler


Thankyou Ken, for your very prompt reply. Isn't POVRay a lovely
thing!

I still can't get it to work with MoRay, even though I installed
the latest MoRay patch.  Moray opens POVRay when I have it
minimised, then jumps in front of it and sends up a dialog that
complains that it can't open POVRay and would I please open it
manually.  I really like the MoRay interface, too, so that's too
bad.

So I downloaded a modeller(sp?) called Breeze. It's a bit too
primitive, and it keeps crashing, but it does generate POV
files, thank goodness.

Are there any other 3D modelling programs out there that are as
sophisticated as MoRay and can use the new POVRay format?

  ~  jann

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Moray currently has problems working with POV3.1 - and it's not really
designed to anyway.  The POV 3.1 compatible version is due out "when it's
ready" - but it apparently in beta stages with registered users now - so
hopefully this won't be too long.

IMHO it's worth waiting for Moray 3.1 compatible to come out - it really is
the *only* POV modeller worth using :)


Matt

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