POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.beta-test: beta 2 available

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From: Chris Cason
Subject: beta 2 available
Date: 18 Apr 2005 13:57:54
Message: <4263f522$1@news.povray.org>

Beta 2 for Windows is available, please see http://www.povray.org/beta/.

  Changes between 3.7.beta.2 and 3.7.beta.1
  -----------------------------------------

  CSG should now work properly
  Problem with too many recursions when rendering shadows fixed
  I/O restrictions should now work
  Fixed recursion bug in renderer
  Initialise photon variables
  Restore ability to open error file in editor
    (note: column number not always correct).
  Fixes no-display crash
  Fixes image closing bug
  Tweak to some radiosity local vars
  Fixes rendering area bug
  Fixes AA method 2 brightness issue
  Add output file type '+FB' (bmp).
  Add 'bmp' token to parser.
  Fix for BMP reading.
  File output defaults to on.
  Fix render quality options output.
  Change references to 'CPU(s)' to 'thread(s)'.
  Update render time output to include fractional seconds.
  Fix crash reported in <4263125b@news.povray.org> and one related bug.

thanks for the bug reports folks!

-- Chris

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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: beta 2 available
Date: 18 Apr 2005 14:30:56
Message: <4263fce0@news.povray.org>

"Chris Cason" <nos### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message
news:4263f522$1@news.povray.org...
> Beta 2 for Windows is available, please see http://www.povray.org/beta/.

Yup this one's working a lot better now :)

There seems to be an artifacts issue with fog and +AM1 (as though it's
unnaturally highlighting the edges of objects).  Maybe this is something to do
with the other +AM1 artifacts bug (see "+AM1 artifact"), but then again maybe
not as it happens across the whole image, rather than random thread tiles.

Lance.

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