How do you render? It seems obvious, click the button with Render written on it . . . and that's the point I discovered it isn't that simple.
After several attempts I've finally drawn my first 3D object, yes it's a shirt button
don't laugh, the wife wanted it for some craft thing she's doing with Photoshop.
Anyhow, I click Render and up pops the Pov-Ray spash screen followed by a window full of scrolling numbers. Then, in a frame below there's some messages which end by saying how long it took and finally "POV-Ray finished". There were no error messages, and considering I'm a complete noob at this, that was quite an achievment.
Now then, its created this file ac3dpovfile.pov. So I opens IrfanView to look at it and get the message Unknown file format etc. Then I had another look at it in TextPad and saw it was full of the numbers I had seen scrolling down before.
So now I'm going to try again and follow the example in the manual, Object name button, and in Object data text I put texture (F_Glass10) -a button for Cinderella's shoe? I couldn't find a list of textures so I stuck to the one in the example. Finally I put #include "glass.inc" File->Settings and tick the box Use object data for POV files.
I pressed the render button up pops the Pov-Ray spash screen again followed by exactly the same as before.
So my next question is, where is my glass button?
Apologies for such a dumb question, but I just can't see what I've done wrong in following the example.
Update
I found one, curly brackets for the texture, but I'm still not much further towards seeing my glass button
I know, its rubbish isn't it, I guess I'm still doing something dumb.
Please help!