We had 484 Downloads of the "old" SMPOV till today. So after all it was ok.

Now here is a new version of SMPOV.
The program to make you get your animations and pictures faster.

Where are the changes ?

1. Automatic support for Mega-POV. Mean: If the file you drag into it has
the "#unofficial ..." statement,
   SMPOV 3 will now try to render it using Mega-POV. Otherwise it will try
to render it with POV-Ray 3.5.

2. Supports the new Mega-POV "frame_step" for Animations. Set "Tiling" to 1
(means 1 CPU = 1 Picture).
    Put in all the numbers (clock, frame,frame_step). Now SMPOV will
automatically generate all necessary
    Renderjobs and distribute them to the Render-Agents.

3. Minor Bug-fixes. An automatic script that will check/change the Settings
in POV 3.5 automatically.

4. Assume you want to install POV 3.5 now on a lot of PC's. there is also an
automated-Installation
    Script on that page. See next Posting.

Future changes:
5. Under heavy load circumstances (SMPOV generates currenly an own thread
for each waiting Render-Job), SMPOV may use a lot of CPU-Power on the
Main-System. There may be changes.

--Theo

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Distributed Network-Rendering or Local SMP-Rendering on all CPU's you have.
With SMPOV und POV-Ray 3.5. *  Download free at:
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

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