POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : Different results between Mac 3.6 and POVWin 3.51 : Re: Different results between Mac 3.6 and POVWin 3.51 Server Time
19 May 2024 06:33:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Different results between Mac 3.6 and POVWin 3.51  
From: Y Tanabe
Date: 1 Mar 2004 01:40:42
Message: <40435974.4ECF2624@kh.rim.or.jp>
Will you search "GAMMA", which helps you.
Monitor gamma of Mac and WintelPC are different.

Y.Tanabe
Kobe,Japan

tec### [at] khrimorjp


John Maynard wrote:

> I am rendering the same scene file with what I believe are the same
> settings on POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 and POV-Ray for Macintosh 3.6, but
> the PNG file that I get on the Mac is slightly darker than the PNG file
> generated on Windows.
>
> Both testscene.pov files have a
>
> global_settings {
>     assumed_gamma setting 1.0
> }
>
> block. On Windows, my povray.ini file is set to Display_Gamma=2.0. On
> Macintosh, I have a testscene.ini file in the same directory as my
> testscene.pov file, and it also has a Display_Gamma=2.0 entry. And yet
> the Mac file still comes out darker.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I'd like to be able to use both computers to
> split up an animation job I'm working on, but I can't have one set of
> PNG files coming out darker than the other. Help! Thanks.


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