Btukfyl

I'm still new to asymptote but so far I've read the documentation and I believe to have followed the directions accordingly. I've checked that all the packages are installed and the necessary gsviewer and I'm on MikTex 2.9

What I tried to do was to reproduce this drawing:

by using this command on cmd

asy -V -f -pdf example







import graph3;

import grid3;

import palette;



currentprojection=orthographic(0.8,1,1);



size(400,300,IgnoreAspect);



defaultrender.merge=true;



real f(pair z) {return cos(2*pi*z.x)*sin(2*pi*z.y);}



surface s=surface(f,(-1/2,-1/2),(1/2,1/2),50,Spline);

draw(s,mean(palette(s.map(zpart),Rainbow())),black);

grid3(XYZgrid);

However I only managed to get a blank page in the resulting pdf for the first example as shown below:

and for this animation

the command I used was:

asy -V -f -pdf example_02

for the asy file as described below

// Embed a movie to be run in an external window.



import external;



// External movies require the pdflatex engine.

settings.tex="pdflatex";



// Generated needed mpeg file if it doesn't already exist.

asy("mp4","wheel");



// Produce a pdf file.

settings.outformat="pdf";



// External movie: viewable even with the Linux version of acroread.

label(embed("wheel.mp4"),(0,0),N);

label(link("wheel.mp4"),(0,0),S);



which is a wheel moving.



but I only obtained this error. 



C:UsersFlorMis documentos>asy -V -f -pdf example_02

error: could not load module 'wheel'

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (MiKTeX 2.9.6930)

entering extended mode

LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>



(example_02_.tex ("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/basearticle.cls"

Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/basesize12.clo"))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/generic/oberdiekifluatex.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphicsgraphicx.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphicskeyval.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphicsgraphics.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphicstrig.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphics-cfggraphics.cfg")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphics-defpdftex.def")))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/hyperrefhyperref.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/generic/oberdiekhobsub-hyperref.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/generic/oberdiekhobsub-generic.sty"))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/generic/ifxetexifxetex.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/oberdiekauxhook.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/oberdiekkvoptions.sty")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/hyperrefpd1enc.def")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/00miktexhyperref.cfg")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/urlurl.sty"))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/hyperrefhpdftex.def"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/oberdiekrerunfilecheck.sty"))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/hyperrefpuenc.def")

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphicscolor.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/graphics-cfgcolor.cfg"))

(example_02_.aux) ("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/context/basesupp-pdf.mkii"



[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]

) ("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/oberdiekepstopdf-base.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/oberdiekgrfext.sty"))

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/latex/hyperrefnameref.sty"

("C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9tex/generic/oberdiekgettitlestring.sty"))

(example_02_.out) (example_02_.out)



LaTeX Warning: File `wheel.pdf' not found on input line 59.





! Package pdftex.def Error: File `wheel.pdf' not found: using draft setting.



See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.

Type  H <return>  for immediate help.

 ...



l.59 ...n:wheel.mp4}{includegraphics{wheel.pdf}}}

                                                  %

[1{C:/Users/Flor/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}]

(example_02_.aux) )

(see the transcript file for additional information)<C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.

9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/t

ype1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmtt12.pfb>

Output written on example_02_.pdf (1 page, 14403 bytes).

Transcript written on example_02_.log.

C:Program FilesMiKTeX 2.9/asymptote/plain_shipout.asy: 87.10: runtime: shipout

 failed



C:UsersFlorMis documentos>

Why is that happening? I must note that I'm on Windows 7.

Could it be that what I'm doing is just plain wrong?. I hope somebody can help me with this issue.