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Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
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Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:59:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Ronald Scott Moody writes:
Is anyone else having trouble getting POV-Ray 3.5 to work? I got some sort
of error about macros in the colors.inc file.  What does that mean and is
there something I can do to fix it.  In the meantime, I have just gone back
to 3.1.

Yeah, it has something to do with POV-Ray switching "versions" before
loading colors.inc. I tried to delete the lines but didn't help much.
Think Lars has to change the code in L3P a bit.

I also expierenced errors in MegaPOV after installing POV-Ray 3.5. Is that
possible? Does MetaPOV use the POV-Ray eninge?

Jeroen



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
 
<snip> (...) Why are we trying to use Pov 3.5? What is computer user's *NEED* to have the latest and greatest? Does Pov 3.5 provide the LDraw rendering community anything NEW that 3.1 did not? Why go thru all the headaches of learning 3.5 when 3.1 (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
  Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
 
(...) Unfortunately, the POV dev team has a history of breaking backwards compatability in their revisions. Think back to how they mutilated the halo feature of 3.0 when they introduced media in 3.1. Their goal is to force everyone to use the latest (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
  Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
 
(...) I was also having the same problems and I spotted this: (URL) he suggests adding a #version 3.5; line at the top of the file. This worked from me but I am still having other issues with the orthagonal view. I guess I'll just have to go back to (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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  Trouble with POV 3.5
 
Is anyone else having trouble getting POV-Ray 3.5 to work? I got some sort of error about macros in the colors.inc file. What does that mean and is there something I can do to fix it. In the meantime, I have just gone back to 3.1. (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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