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  Re: Height field change in UberPOV?  
From: clipka
Date: 30 Jun 2015 13:48:55
Message: <5592d687$1@news.povray.org>
Am 30.06.2015 um 19:39 schrieb clipka:
> 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.

A source file fix for POV-Ray proper is available now in the master 
branch at GitHub.


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