POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: Height field change in UberPOV?: Re: Height field change in UberPOV?

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From: clipka
Date: 30 Jun 2015 13:39:18
Message: <5592d446$1@news.povray.org>

Am 28.06.2015 um 21:11 schrieb Cousin Ricky:

> Image uberhills-v36.jpg was rendered with POV-Ray 3.6.1.
>
> Image uberhills-v37.jpg was rendered with POV-Ray 3.7.0.0.
>
> Image uberhills-uber.jpg was rendered with UberPOV 1.37.1.0-beta.10.
>
> When I tried using a regular (non-pigment) function, there was no
> difference between UberPOV and official POV-Ray.  I am running openSUSE
> 13.2 (GNU/Linux) on an Intel Core i7 (quad core).

I can confirm that this is a bug.

In a nutshell, POV-Ray defalts to the wrong noise generator during parsing.

The behaviour was broken by commit 35a20c2 (2014-06-13).

As a workaround, use "noise_generator 2" in the global settings.

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