So, as the header says, I'm getting error #5 everytime I try to render an animation with raytracing set on. The error comes right after I have selected the video codec if I have not selected to save the animation as series of images, otherwise it comes after the saving dialog (and sometimes the rendering window appears for a short time).
Everything works correctly if I don't use raytracing, still using raytracing for snapshots works perfectly. This is with both versions 6.6.0.1 and 6.6.0.2. Also happens on two very different computers with XP and 2000. I'm using PovRay 3.6 (also tested with 3.5) and the latest MDAC, etc.

Any ideas on solutions or the cause? Any kind of help would be very appreaciated. I'd need to get this working as soon as possible, as I'm in a quite hurry with this animation. If nothing comes up, I quess I'll have to render the animation frame by frame and then combine them.

It seems others have the same problem. I just noticed that this was reported to the bug section.

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Dear Timo, this has nothing to do with your thing that you just asked, But I heard somewhere that you were under 20 yrs old. um, is that true???
-J

Does this happen with version 6.5?

Richard

Unfortunately I haven't tested that, nor have I time for it for the next week. I have already rendered the animation frame by frame. (400 frames in total...)

I can confirm that this happens in version 6.6. It is not a problem in version 6.5.

Richard

I hope you can get this fixed to the next version.

Is there any idea when some kind of patch or fix can possibly be released? This may be a big problem for me if not fixed in the next few months. It seems that I'm not able to take snapshots with raytracing on either, so that means I can't render particles in the air.