I have found MegaPOV and its related patches to be stable.  The beta
versions of 3.5 promises that it will be very powerful when the kinks are
out.  Very fast and flexible with most of the Mega features.  I still use
Mega when I need stable splines or want to play with the cloth patch or the
renderman patch.  Otherwise I use 3.5 beta.  I have used the Mega  patch of
3.1  since forever, whether I actually used  the added feature set or not.
There is no reason to distrust it and it is a fast download. And it is not a
oneway street.  With Mega installed you can still start up the 3.1 engine.
You don't have to be a technical he-man  to use either Megapov or 3.5 beta.
Believe me, I should know.

-Jim

"Tom A." wrote:

> I've been using the official release of POV, partially because I felt it
> was more stable, and partially because I don't have a connection to the
> net from home - if I download a new copy, I then split it to x number of
> floppies, and sneakernet it to my home machine.
>
> But I keep hearing about things that can be done in Mega-Pov that can't
> be done in the official version.
>
> So, the question is - how many people use it?  Do you use both? Or
> gravitate towards one or the other?  Are the extensions in Mega-Pov used
> often?
>
> I'm trying to decide if I should go with Mega-Pov or just wait for the
> official V3.5?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Tom A.
> "No doubt many that post deserve to be flamed.  And many that are flamed
> didn't deserve it.  Can you give them the latter?  Then don't be so
> quick to deal out the former!" - not Gandalf.
> Deja mail is gone.  Look for me at raugost at yahoo . com

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