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I'm trying to follow Koyan's rendering-tutorial in the Brickjournal 4: Been slowly progressing through the multiple downloads necessary, both those that were mentioned in the text (Todd's colours) and those who weren't (they're hidden here if you (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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--SNIP-- (...) --SNIP-- Hi Niels, Could it be possible that you have edited the rad_def.inc file and accidentally left in characters from the Scandinavian character set (maybe the problem could be with your povray file too)? It is possible that (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Niels, I recently did this tutorial as well. (...) I think I had the exact same problem. I did get it to work, and the answer was rather odd. This is the text that you are pasting into your POV file from the tutorial, correct? #version (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Right now it just seem like I've screwed POV-Ray up :( The rad_def.inc problems started before I tampered with the file, underway, I tried to download a version from the internet (which turned out even worse) - in an attempt to get the old one (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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To be more specific, it get stuck these places: POV-FILE: // Generated by L3P v1.3 20010120 (C) 1998-2001 Lars C. Hassing lch@ccieurope.com // WWW: (URL) WWW: (URL) Date: Wed Aug 02 09:48:57 2006 // Input file: C:\LDRAW\MODELS\02 1995.ldr // (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) LOL! You're right, I simply forgot the FIRST rule when copying ANY code (from the internet): Always copy-paste via notepad to avoid crappy tags. Thanks a lot David, now excuse me for a while: gotta stand in the corner being ashamed of myself (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Of course this doesn't solve the problems I ran into in the process because I messed with the installations :( Hope somebody can help with that -NB (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) That wouldn't have helped here. The problem is that whatever software was used to do the article used fancy quotes (different opening and closing quotes). Those are just extended ASCII characters, though, which means that they would have (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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There are more then one issue with the files and code specified in the tutorial. I found them all, so here is the required fixes to make them work. Step 1.) Assuming you have downloaded the proper files: Begin by opening the POV-Ray master ini file (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) details removed (...) Thanks everyone for pointing these out. I will update this info on the BrickJournal web site as well so other people don't run into the same problem. As for the copy through Notepad, I have done that so long that I take (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Thanks a bunch Jeffrey It seemed like anohter one of those offending type " 's had snuck into my povray.ini-file, thanks for making me check again, everything is working now!!! Cheers NB (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Thank YOU for making that great tutorial Geoff I'm sure we're many that has really been needing that for a long time: Personally I tried to assemble the bits and pieces strewn across lugnet and brickshelf to get the kind of renderings I've (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Niels, but the kudos go to Koyan Derudder (URL). All I did was take his work and put it in magazine format, along with a model that's easy to build. Koyan did all of the hard part, and we should be thanking him. :-) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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