I'm not sure what you mean by "in the archive."

Are there new features?

Does this release simply have all of the "Superpatch for 3.1a" features, but with
bug fixes relative to 3.1e?  I'm satisfied (perhaps a great understatement) with
3.1a Superpatch, and ain't interested in a new version unless there are new
features.



Ron Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:32:42 -0400, Dan <sei### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
> >Sorry to be so obtuse, but I can't seem to find any documentation on what this
> >superpatch does, or how I'm supposed to install it....
>
> The documentation and installation instructions are in the archive.
> I'll be building a webpage soonish, I hope.  I just wanted to get it
> online so Ken would stop bugging me. :)
>
> Here's a section from the docs:
>
>  What is the Superpatch?
>
>           The Superpatch is an unofficial build of POV-Ray.
>           Like many unofficial builds, it adds new features
>           to POV.  However, the Superpatch is intended to
>           fulfill a loftier goal than merely to offer new
>           features.  The goal of the Superpatch is to offer
>           as many features as possible in a single
>           unofficial build, allowing you to use the new
>           features from a diverse collection of unofficial
>           builds in a single package.
>
>           The Superpatch was conceived and executed by Ron
>           Parker, par### [at] fwicom, but it contains the work
>           of a great many people...
>
>           The Superpatch is an UNOFFICIAL build of POV-Ray
>           and is not supported by the POV-Team.

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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "in the archive."
> 
> Are there new features?
> 
> Does this release simply have all of the "Superpatch for 3.1a" features, but with
> bug fixes relative to 3.1e?  I'm satisfied (perhaps a great understatement) with
> 3.1a Superpatch, and ain't interested in a new version unless there are new
> features.
> 

Of course there are new features. A few bugs fixed as well. It also supports
the new editor dll of Pov v3.1e so makes it more comaptible with the current
official version of Pov. The download is under a meg so why wait ?

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:53:00 -0400, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean by "in the archive."

The zip file.  Documentation is in the zip file.

>Are there new features?

Yes.  Four new warps (planar, cylindrical, toroidal, and spherical), metallic 
reflection, the unicode patch, light groups (for controlling interactions 
between objects and lights), projected_through (for "shaping" light beams), a 
new isosurface function that uses any built-in pigment as a basis 
(coincidentally allowing you to create a pigment-based surface without any 
height_field artifacts), and a more recent UV patch, together with a pile of 
bugfixes such as making blobs work with trace(), making perturbed cameras not 
crash, making the patch work with the 3.1e editor, and of course all the 
official 3.1e fixes.

Still conspicuous by their absence are the photon mapping patch, the 
dispersion patch, and the unlimited light patch.

Sorry for leaving all this out of the announcement, but most of it has been 
discussed at one time or another around here so I made the obviously 
incorrect assumption that people were tired of hearing about it. :)

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Ron Parker wrote in message <37668107@news.povray.org>...
<snip>
>crash, making the patch work with the 3.1e editor, and of course all the
>official 3.1e fixes.
<snip>

The patch does work alongside the 3.1e editor, but it seems the superpatch
editor itself is still the 3.1a version (i.e. timer continues after
rendering has been paused).  There isn't a way to take advantage of the
windows/editor specific bugfixes in 3.1e when using the superpatch I assume?
(Since only the DOS 3.1e bugfixes have been included...?)

Am I right in thinking this?

/\/\/\//

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:03:00 +0100, Matthew Bennett wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote in message <37668107@news.povray.org>...
><snip>
>>crash, making the patch work with the 3.1e editor, and of course all the
>>official 3.1e fixes.
><snip>
>
>The patch does work alongside the 3.1e editor, but it seems the superpatch
>editor itself is still the 3.1a version (i.e. timer continues after
>rendering has been paused).  There isn't a way to take advantage of the
>windows/editor specific bugfixes in 3.1e when using the superpatch I assume?
>(Since only the DOS 3.1e bugfixes have been included...?)
>
>Am I right in thinking this?

You are correct.  The Windows 3.1e source code has not been released.
The only thing that makes it possible for you to use the 3.1e editor
with the superpatch is an unusally unreliable undocumented unsupported 
hack.

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Ron Parker wrote in message <3766a70d@news.povray.org>...
>On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:03:00 +0100, Matthew Bennett wrote:
>>Ron Parker wrote in message <37668107@news.povray.org>...
<snip>
>>The patch does work alongside the 3.1e editor, but it seems the superpatch

<snip>
>>Am I right in thinking this?
>
>You are correct.  The Windows 3.1e source code has not been released.
>The only thing that makes it possible for you to use the 3.1e editor
>with the superpatch is an unusally unreliable undocumented unsupported
>hack.

Ahh, ok - thanks for the information - I thought there must have been a good
reason why not :)
It's a bit out of character for the POV team not to release source code
though isn't it... or has it something to do with the fact that part of
their editor has been developed by someone else?...

/\/\/\//

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:26:36 +0100, "Matthew Bennett"
<ben### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:

>It's a bit out of character for the POV team not to release source code
>though isn't it... or has it something to do with the fact that part of
>their editor has been developed by someone else?...

I asked about that myself a while back.  The reason I was given is
that Chris Cason, the primary Windows guy on the Team, has been
working hard on getting us this nice shiny new server and generally
facilitating the Team's move from CompuServe.  I can certainly respect
that, and I don't begrudge him whatever spare time he has remaining.

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