Animation rendering (first attempts once debugged) crashes POV-Ray

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Wow. Talk about a pain in the ass:

povray: backend/lighting/radiosity.cpp:324: virtual void pov::RadiosityFunction::BeforeTile(int, unsigned int): Assertion `(pts >= PRETRACE_FIRST) && (pts <= PRETRACE_MAX)' failed.

Initial attempts at researching this have turned up the following news and bug reports at povray.org.

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The following commit (at which revision this was first noticed) was in the first attempt at rendering any animation series of renders. This particular attempt, as can be seen in some of the anim/* files, first occurred in my very initial attempt, which was supposed to be the sequence of frames, with the camera location traversing a position roughly above Sol, to the midway point between Sol & Mercury.

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Welp, I guess I can get around this by rendering the animation in my 'Doze 10 VM. Probably a better idea to use my son's i7 with 'doze for it, though, being as in emulation it renders at like 20% of the speed. :|

Still, it looks like the animation is coming along wellish for the part that I've actually coded so far.

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Well, as mentioned in the link given above, it doesn't appear that this will be easy to get around until there's a new release candidate out for Linux. Until then, it does appear, luckily, that both 'doze 7 & 10 are able to process my scenes, animation and all, without any issue. So I guess I'll just be inconvenienced, and handle the POV-Ray rendering on the doze boxen. :(