Thanks for the comment, gilles.

I know thats your reality and between the lines I've read that many
"advanced users" - however not all-
think like that.

If they render mostly radiosity-things, they cannot use SMPOV it for the
finaly scene or they may have
artifacts in the picure.

My own copy of SMPOV (that helps me as a beginner to get my pictures faster)
is
running round the clock, rendering pictures, with and without radiosity.

So my reality IS diffrent and there may be users out there who want to use
it as well as I use it.

It's like with anything in the world. use it - or leave it. If you're not
shure try it.

If you look the pictures on my WEB-Site you see the sort of stuff I want to
render.
It does not need radiosity and even radiosity would not be good for the
typical


There are those peoples out there you talk about, so there is a comment on
my WEB-page and then
in the Readme.txt-File i have written what they can expect when using
"general scene lighting calculations" while rendering the scene "in tiles".


CPU's cause I wrote it for myself and I like it.

I am not an professional artist and I don't know what stuff they do render.
I did nowhere say that SMPOV CAN render "the unpossible" cause it does NOT
render anything in fact but give the job's "small in tiles" to multiple
copies of POV-Ray.

I've downloaded some scenens from the link sites on the povray.org homepage.
Maybe I downloaded those that are my taste ... however they did not use
radiosity and they all rendered perfectly, in less then half the time.  That
was all I wanted.

Its your good right to want more. Ok. sit down and code. However I doubt it
will be an add-on then you have to struggle with the source code and you
have to be better then the original people working on that :-) ...

Have much fun with rendering while that !
--Theo

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"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> news: 3d5bfc2a@news.povray.org...
>
> > For most scenes in the POV-Distribution Radiosity is not needed as far
as
> I
> > know.
>
> Hi Theo
> You seem extremely enthusiastic and very willing to offer something great
to
> the Pov-Ray community, and this is always very appreciated.
> However, if you want people to really like and support your work, I think
> that it will be very useful if you spent time actually using Pov-Ray and
> developing scenes, and learning how people really use it, and what needs
and
> requirements they have. Browse the Pov-Ray galleries, browse the image
> forums, browse the IRTC. This can take time, but believe me, this is
really
> necessary. I'm insisting on that, because I'm always puzzled that most of
> the discussions or proposals about distributed or shared rendering seem to
> tend to ignore how people use the software. To overlook radiosity, memory
> requirements, or file sizes, for instance, is very typical. A few weeks
ago,
> I was contacted by university folks who didn't even know whether their
> Povray renderfarm supported radiosity... Isn't reading the manual a
minimal
> requirement when developing stuff like that ? I just don't get it. It's
like
> building airports without bothering to check what planes are supposed to
> land there.
>
> If you ask people (and particularly advanced users), you will find that
> radiosity scenes that gobble large amounts of RAM and drain the CPU are
> exactly the sort of scenes that they'd be happy to render using a
> renderfarm. As far as I'm concerned, lack of radiosity support for such a
> system is useless.
> So unless you want to use your system for demonstration purposes only, I
> suggest that you take a break from development, plunge headfirst into the
> manual and work for a couple of months on actual Pov-Ray scenes.
>
> G.
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