Confirmed.  The quality is actually much better, even though you don't see
it.  However, I'm adding a new feature that will bring back the performance
and put more control in the hands of the user.  :-)  The new feature will be
part of the radius keyword within the photons block within global settings.

-Nathan

"Mike Hough" <Ama### [at] aolcom> wrote...
> It was suggested to me that I do a comparison using the example scene
> "optics.pov" to show the difference in render time between MegaPOV 0.7 and
> POV-Ray 3.5 RC5.  The only change to the scene was to replace the keyword
> "collect off" to "ignore_photons".  MegaPOV appears to render the scene
> about 7 times faster.  I'll post the images in the binaries group.  To me
> there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two.
>
> Resolution - 640x480 AA 0.3
>
> MegaPOV 0.7 -          6 minutes 31 seconds
> POV-Ray 3.5 RC5 - 47 minutes 51 seconds
>
>

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