In article <MPG.1952784c48072a12989820@news.povray.org>,
 Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Heres an idea.. How about a simple way to have the SDL find out what the 
> quality setting you are using is? Then you can use 'that' to 
> automatically turn on/off things that you don't want used. I can see 
> cases like the focal blur one you mention where it makes sense to leave 
> things as they are, but at the same time it makes no sense to me to have 
> to edit both the INI and the scene files to get it to turn everything off 
> you want turned off for a particular test. However, as far as I can tell 
> from a brief search, none of the INI settings can be checked inside the 
> SDL. It makes sense to not allow changing them, but not even finding out 
> their current values?!

This sounds like a great idea, and is extremely easy to implement...I 
sometimes use a "quality level" indicator, allowing this to adapt to the 
level specified with the quality option makes perfect sense.

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