Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> H.M. "David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> > could provide the scene file for the splash screen image.  I really like
> > that.  The .dat files provided are usually either quick tests (and
> > sometimes ugly) or very old.  Let's show what POV-Ray can really do.
>
>  Your wishes are orders for me!
>
>   But, I think as Rune that basic demo scenes must remain simple. I also
> think that the /advanced folder can grow a bit. Anyhow, although I'm really
> proud that H.M. likes the splash image, it is not really a good demo for
> 3.5, and not even for 3.1. If I remember well, it was 3.0 code, but I
> translated it for the splash render to 3.5 pre-beta. Also, Gilles is
> completely right, and "serious" scenes would require render times that
> perhaps will discourage the new user. It's a great dilema...

I'm not suggesting removing anything.  Keep the feature demo scenes simple.  I
was thinking more along the lines of adding to the /advanced folder.  Maybe
even if we could have another folder for scenes that take longer to render but
are very impressive - maybe a "Hall Of Fame".  I realize that some of the
scenes are extremely large and are virtually impossible for typical machines to
render (for example, "Warm Up" by Norbert Kern (WOW!)).  But there are some
very nice examples that would showcase POV-Ray's abilities.

David Buck

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