POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Amapi is free : Re: Amapi is free Server Time
5 Aug 2024 00:25:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Amapi is free  
From: Ken
Date: 19 Apr 2003 11:05:48
Message: <3EA165EC.F4F37F61@pacbell.net>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <3ea14dcc@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
> 
> >> I actually
> >> downloaded to manual (the whole 42 MB), but it does not say anything about
> >> technical issues at all :-(
> >
> >   I think that's one difference between "professional" commercial renderers
> > and amateur free ones. :)
> 
> No, the manual was included in German and English, and there where plenty of
> example movies (or something like that, I didn't watch them).  So they are
> just better cheating ;-)

Actually I think Warp was referring to the fact that the documentation from a
commercial rendering package never discusses the technology behind how it works
whereas POV-Ray (an amateur free program) does an excellent job of it.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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