"Nekar Xenos" <vir### [at] iconcoza> wrote in message
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> It doesn't really give any reason. It just seemed not logical to take out
> something that worked quite well and replace it with something that has a
> lot more feature but can't do the same thing. I haven't seen any 3.1g
update
> of Jonathan's 'great balls of fire' for instance.
> So I just assumed it should be easier to have them both.

I did manage to get something very similar to my halo fireball
with media, but it was *so* much slower, and no where near as
smooth.
I ended up re-installing POV 3.0 when I wanted to
re-render it recently.

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Jonathan Hunt
http://www.xlcus.co.uk/povray/

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Jonathan Hunt <jon### [at] xlcuscouk> wrote:
: I did manage to get something very similar to my halo fireball
: with media, but it was *so* much slower, and no where near as
: smooth.

  Just try MegaPov and media method 3.
  Or wait for pov3.5.

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