POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : MegaPov? : Re: MegaPov? Server Time
1 Jul 2024 06:04:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MegaPov?  
From: Josh English
Date: 9 Mar 2000 12:43:27
Message: <38C7E379.93C1227D@spiritone.com>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <38C442A4.64666004@spiritone.com> , Josh English
> <eng### [at] spiritonecom>  wrote:
>
> > What I don't understand tho, is that on every Mac I've tested it on, Mega Pov
> > renders faster than the official version. That's what I don't get. I thought
> > the actual rendering procedure was the same.
>
> And I have never, on now five different Macs - only three with an Mac OS
> installed by myself - managed to reproduce this.  In fact, MacMegaPOV is
> significantly slower as on all other platforms when I test it.
> And indeed, before MegaPOV, there was no real difference between the
> versions except the different ways preview is implemented.
>

Well I usually do have the preview on so I can watch a scene being rendered. I'll
be honest in that I've never sat down and compared the two without the preview.


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