PlugIn FAQ

1. City PlugIn FAQ
2. Liquid Spray PlugIn FAQ
3. Columns PlugIn FAQ

City PlugIn FAQ

• Q. My Picture is Blank/Black?
• A. Make sure that you have a Camera and Light and that the  Camera and Light are outside the box that the City resides in -i.e. pull the Camera back to Y-320 and Z+200 and the Light to Z+80.
• A. Make sure that the .mdl file is not called city.mdl as if you have put the city include files in the povscn directory Moray will overwrite Chris's city.inc file with it's own file (containing the textures for the scene). One way round this is to put the city include files in the Povray Include directory.
• A. If you have called the .mdl file city.mdl. Whats happening is that Moray outputs the files city.ini, city.inc, and city.pov to the Moray Povscn directory and the city plugin puts the line #include "city.inc" at the end of the city.pov file as it needs to load in Chris' city.inc file to render the city. Now what happens is that the file that Moray created gets loaded instead of the proper city.inc file since it's being rendered from the Moray Povscn directory and due to the way windows works it will look for the include files as a defualt in the current directory first - that is the Moray Povscn directory. What you need to do is rename the city.mdl to say mycity.mdl you can do this in Moray with the 'save as' menu item. Then you need to delete the city.inc file in the Moray Povscn directory and all will be well with the world.
• A. If when you look in the Povray Message window it says 'wrong version' or something similar, then remove the version line in the Moray.ini file (it's at the bottom of the file and looks something like this.... version = 3 (use notepad to edit the file). The Moray.ini file resides in the Moray main directory, you may also want to remove the *.ini file that Moray creates in the Povscn directory for the file that you wish to render.

Liquid Spray PlugIn FAQ

• Q. My Picture is Blank/Black?
• A. This is usually caused by putting the Spray include files in the povscn directory - Moray overwrites the spray.inc file if you have called the mdl file spray.mdl - One way round this is to put the spray include files in the Povray Include directory.

Columns PlugIn FAQ

• Q. Why does Moray ask for loads of Object names when creating a column?
• A. You must make sure the Configuration option 'Automatically assign names to new objects' is checked otherwise you will have to type in 300+ names ;-).

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