Hello all

I was hoping someone out there could help me! I'm trying to generate nice
pictures of a protein structure, but the output .pov file from VMD cannot
be loaded into POV-ray for some reason. What I get is the the error:

Access violation at address 01161E12 in module 'povcmax2.dll'. Read of
address 00000000.

I press OK and it then says:

Failed to open file: The operation completed successfully.

When I then try to open it again, it says:

Failed top open file: Not enough storage is available to process this
command.

Are these two things related?

I have POV-ray v3.6 installed on a PC running Win2003 and has 1GB RAM. The
program is running from a primary partition of 20GB (with 12GB free), and
my .pov file is on a secondary partition of 65GB (with 4GB free). Also, the
..pov file itself is 246MB. Previous .pov files from VMD have loaded fine,
but admittedly they were only 168MB...


I have a second smaller question to do with the actual rendering. I get a
lot of comments about denegerate triangles. Is there an easy way of getting
rid of them?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Uplah

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Hi.
I'm afraid I'm not good enough at debugging pov for the first part of your 
message (looks like memory overflow, but I would not bet on that), but for 
the degenerate triangles it's easier.
These are triangles where two at least of the three points have the same 
coordinates. They will not render (coz they have lots at least one 
dimension, having two when "healthy"), so you should be able to suppress 
them without altering your render while shortening your scene size.
Maybe if it drops under the 168MB limit, it will render ? ...



web.417a39f71bcbb3c017968a7d0@news.povray.org...
> Hello all
>
> I was hoping someone out there could help me! I'm trying to generate nice
> pictures of a protein structure, but the output .pov file from VMD cannot
> be loaded into POV-ray for some reason. What I get is the the error:
>
> Access violation at address 01161E12 in module 'povcmax2.dll'. Read of
> address 00000000.
>
> I press OK and it then says:
>
> Failed to open file: The operation completed successfully.
>
> When I then try to open it again, it says:
>
> Failed top open file: Not enough storage is available to process this
> command.
>
> Are these two things related?
>
> I have POV-ray v3.6 installed on a PC running Win2003 and has 1GB RAM. The
> program is running from a primary partition of 20GB (with 12GB free), and
> my .pov file is on a secondary partition of 65GB (with 4GB free). Also, 
> the
> ..pov file itself is 246MB. Previous .pov files from VMD have loaded fine,
> but admittedly they were only 168MB...
>
>
> I have a second smaller question to do with the actual rendering. I get a
> lot of comments about denegerate triangles. Is there an easy way of 
> getting
> rid of them?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Uplah
>
>

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