Greetings, fellow humanoids!

I have been rendering all the sample scenes in the "scenes" subdirectory
under the POV-Ray installation.

When rendering the scenes\advanced\balcony\balcony.pov file I get the
following error:

    A parse error occure at table_stuff.inc in line 95:
     Cannot open include file bglass.inc

I have search the entire POV-Ray installation directory and it ain't
there.  I have search the povray newsgroups and povray.org website and
can find only one reference to the "bglass.inc" file.  It seems somebody
who was using the beta version of 3.6 posted this same problem, but
nobody ever answered the question of what happened to "bglass.inc".

Since the nation is currently under another "Bush" administration, I
suspect a government cover up.  Unless somebody tells me differently,
I'll blame George W.

- Patrick
pat### [at] hagwarecom

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"Patrick Hagerty" <pat### [at] hagwarecom> wrote in message
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>
> When rendering the scenes\advanced\balcony\balcony.pov file I get the
> following error:
>
>     A parse error occure at table_stuff.inc in line 95:
>      Cannot open include file bglass.inc
>
> I have search the entire POV-Ray installation directory and it ain't
> there.  I have search the povray newsgroups and povray.org website and
> can find only one reference to the "bglass.inc" file.  It seems somebody
> who was using the beta version of 3.6 posted this same problem, but
> nobody ever answered the question of what happened to "bglass.inc".

IIRC bglass.inc was also named glass.inc and the name change helped to
distinguish it from the very different glass.inc in the Includes folder.

Interestingly, I had mistakenly thought mine was okay. In wanting to see
where this include file really is at made me check again, only with a little
more determination to figure out why mine rendered fine and someone elses
wasn't.

Well, lo and behold, I had accidentally opened the older scene file from the
3.5 installation because I was working from that folder instead of 3.6's.
Another possiblity for confusion is to add library paths from 3.5 to 3.6,
hence mixing things up, and I usually make such a change after first trying
each new update. That way I can keep rendering older files, too.

As to the question, 'where is bglass.inc?', I can only say that you might
find it as glass.inc from a prior install. Curious thing this not being
there in 3.6 but has been acknowledged just over one month ago as having
gotten overlooked. Admittedly, that may seem strange for it to be missed all
the way back to February of this year as per the beta testing posting about
it. Thing is, a lot goes on in keeping the changes together while being
worked on. This is, perhaps, a fluke having to do with that name change but
I'm not the one who'd know.

Ahhh, wait a sec. Here's a web directory of that entire scene, maybe complet
e and up-to-date. Hopefully not illegally offered on the web in this way,
don't want to stir up trouble, but 'net searching yields some confusing
results so figured I'd give this one here.
http://www.itee.adfa.edu.au/courses/ACSC7304/work/povray-scenes/advanced/balcony/
Note that it is not named bglass.inc, yet is invoked correctly from its
particular table_stuff.inc.

Christoph Hormann might be the only one to say with confidence if this is
unchanged from what POV 3.6 was meant to have. Chances are the file accessed
from that web site is okay. It matches the old glass.inc file I already had,
anyway, just change the name to bglass.inc for using in the current
table_stuff.inc you already have.

Bob H.

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Hughes, B. wrote:
> 
> Christoph Hormann might be the only one to say with confidence if this is
> unchanged from what POV 3.6 was meant to have.

bglass.inc is exactly the same as the glass.inc in 3.5.  The name change 
was to avoid a conflict with the standard include file 'glass.inc'.  Due 
to a minor flaw it was not included in the 3.6 windows package.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Hughes, B. wrote:
> >
> > Christoph Hormann might be the only one to say with confidence if this is
> > unchanged from what POV 3.6 was meant to have.
>
> bglass.inc is exactly the same as the glass.inc in 3.5.  The name change
> was to avoid a conflict with the standard include file 'glass.inc'.  Due
> to a minor flaw it was not included in the 3.6 windows package.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
> HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
> Last updated 06 Jul. 2004 _____.//^>_*_<^/.______


Thank y'all ever so much!  I've finally gotten that balcony.pov scene
rendered.

- Patrick

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