Hello to all you Macintosh POV-Ray users,

Well, looks like we finally got a group for the Macitosh POV-Ray users.
Not too soon we should think.

No need in bothering other groups with Mac specific issues and we don't
want to be bothered with their specific problems. 
This does not mean we are not interested in their platform specific
issues. If we can help, we will, as we have received help from them in
the past. (eg. dispersion patch,..) 
Only full cooperation will keep us on the right way! And we must say
that it was fun to receive the help we got from Darren and Mike to get
the dispersion patch going for our unofficial compile! Thanks again to
both of them!!!!!!

Since this group stays empty, why don't we just break the ice by
telling who we are and how we use POV-Ray.
Might be the begining of a usefull help for all you Mac-POV-Ray-addicts.

For us it's quite simple. 
We started to use POV-Ray on our old Atari, there wasn't much of a
POV-Ray compile for it,  where each rendering took a few
days/weeks/months, and since then we moved on to the Mac.
Because we already made a custom compile for the Atari (only for us), we
kept going on for the Macintosh.
We now provide a public unofficial compile for PowerPC and 68k Mac's.
Because of that, we don't have much time to realy render images but we
do hope to start again soon.
 
However, the response we get and the example scenes we receive makes up
for this and keeps us going on.

We enjoy all the work of the POV-Ray Team and added something extra to
it by making available a few third party patches for our platform. 
Yeeeehhhh, those patches should not be for Windows/DOS/UNIX only!
We do realise we only made a few of them available but this is only a
mather of time. Not only is the POV-Ray Team planning to include them in
there 3.5 release, we might also keep on adding them untill the POV-Ray
Team does.

We carefully watch this newsserver, picking up all we can. 
We do not mix in the messages personally (often :-) ), simply because it
would take up to much time, time we prefer to spend in developing our
unofficial compile.

Ok, all you Mac users, let us know who you are, how many of you there
are and how you use POV-Ray.
What are your needs, what are your skills.
And keep in mind that the POV-Ray Team is reading too. All your wishes
will be noted by them too (dont't hold back)!  :-) ;-)

Nice meetig you,

Yvo & Rene Smellenbergh

-- 
e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe

http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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Hello, I use your unofficial version because I like the editor(especially
the spline editors) and render speed. You have certainly done a great job.
I would like to know if you are planning on incorporating photon-mapping
any time soon. I have just found out that it will not be in 3.5(It is still
too rough and unfinished), and want to experiment with it, but can not find
a mac version, and have no experience with custom compiling POV-Ray. I
would also like an isosurface patch, but from what I have heard, it is not
fully cross-platform, and I can see why it won't be included in the
official version.

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Chris Huff <Chr### [at] compuservecom> wrote:

> Hello, I use your unofficial version because I like the editor(especially
> the spline editors) and render speed. You have certainly done a great job.
> I would like to know if you are planning on incorporating photon-mapping
> any time soon. I have just found out that it will not be in 3.5(It is still
> too rough and unfinished), and want to experiment with it, but can not find
> a mac version, and have no experience with custom compiling POV-Ray. I
> would also like an isosurface patch, but from what I have heard, it is not
> fully cross-platform, and I can see why it won't be included in the
> official version.

To be honest, we did not look at the photon-patch untill now, because we
have spend a lot of time in bug fixes and new features for our next
release.
However, we will take a look at it and see if we can include it in our
next update (Not much time left ;-), if it doesn't interfere to much
with other features.


Concerning the isosurface patch: we were waiting untill someone updated
it to 3.1. It has been a while since we went looking on those home pages
but we will do it again.

We will probably not include the isosurface in our unofficial compile as
such, it's kind of a 'strange' patch, but it could very well be that we
make sort of a beta version available.
We did include isosurface in the past in a version for our selves. So,
maybe it's not fully cross-platform but for the Mac it's no problem!

Thanks for your comments and for getting this group of the ground.

We will keep you posted!

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e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe

http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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Hello,

I new to the world of 3D graphical rendering and just recently downloaded
POV-RAY.  I've been playing with the tutorials (rendering cubes and sphere).
 Now, how does one import an image (rgb or pict) to render in POV-RAY.  I
didn't see how to do this in the manual.  Maybe I'm blind?
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In article <1dp### [at] dialup54leuvenskynetbe>,
sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:


>Hello to all you Macintosh POV-Ray users,
>
>Well, looks like we finally got a group for the Macitosh POV-Ray users.
>Not too soon we should think.
>
>No need in bothering other groups with Mac specific issues and we don't
>want to be bothered with their specific problems. 
>This does not mean we are not interested in their platform specific
>issues. If we can help, we will, as we have received help from them in
>the past. (eg. dispersion patch,..) 
>Only full cooperation will keep us on the right way! And we must say
>that it was fun to receive the help we got from Darren and Mike to get
>the dispersion patch going for our unofficial compile! Thanks again to
>both of them!!!!!!
>
>Since this group stays empty, why don't we just break the ice by
>telling who we are and how we use POV-Ray.
>Might be the begining of a usefull help for all you Mac-POV-Ray-addicts.
>
>For us it's quite simple. 
>We started to use POV-Ray on our old Atari, there wasn't much of a
>POV-Ray compile for it,  where each rendering took a few
>days/weeks/months, and since then we moved on to the Mac.
>Because we already made a custom compile for the Atari (only for us), we
>kept going on for the Macintosh.
>We now provide a public unofficial compile for PowerPC and 68k Mac's.
>Because of that, we don't have much time to realy render images but we
>do hope to start again soon.
> 
>However, the response we get and the example scenes we receive makes up
>for this and keeps us going on.
>
>We enjoy all the work of the POV-Ray Team and added something extra to
>it by making available a few third party patches for our platform. 
>Yeeeehhhh, those patches should not be for Windows/DOS/UNIX only!
>We do realise we only made a few of them available but this is only a
>mather of time. Not only is the POV-Ray Team planning to include them in
>there 3.5 release, we might also keep on adding them untill the POV-Ray
>Team does.
>
>We carefully watch this newsserver, picking up all we can. 
>We do not mix in the messages personally (often :-) ), simply because it
>would take up to much time, time we prefer to spend in developing our
>unofficial compile.
>
>Ok, all you Mac users, let us know who you are, how many of you there
>are and how you use POV-Ray.
>What are your needs, what are your skills.
>And keep in mind that the POV-Ray Team is reading too. All your wishes
>will be noted by them too (dont't hold back)!  :-) ;-)
>
>Nice meetig you,
>
>Yvo & Rene Smellenbergh
>
>-- 
>e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
>
>http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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Craig, you import an image with the image_map command. Now you know where to
look in the manual for instructions.

steve

Craig Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I new to the world of 3D graphical rendering and just recently downloaded
> POV-RAY.  I've been playing with the tutorials (rendering cubes and sphere).
>  Now, how does one import an image (rgb or pict) to render in POV-RAY.  I
> didn't see how to do this in the manual.  Maybe I'm blind?
> ----------
> In article <1dp### [at] dialup54leuvenskynetbe>,
> sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:
>
> >Hello to all you Macintosh POV-Ray users,
> >
> >Well, looks like we finally got a group for the Macitosh POV-Ray users.
> >Not too soon we should think.
> >
> >No need in bothering other groups with Mac specific issues and we don't
> >want to be bothered with their specific problems.
> >This does not mean we are not interested in their platform specific
> >issues. If we can help, we will, as we have received help from them in
> >the past. (eg. dispersion patch,..)
> >Only full cooperation will keep us on the right way! And we must say
> >that it was fun to receive the help we got from Darren and Mike to get
> >the dispersion patch going for our unofficial compile! Thanks again to
> >both of them!!!!!!
> >
> >Since this group stays empty, why don't we just break the ice by
> >telling who we are and how we use POV-Ray.
> >Might be the begining of a usefull help for all you Mac-POV-Ray-addicts.
> >
> >For us it's quite simple.
> >We started to use POV-Ray on our old Atari, there wasn't much of a
> >POV-Ray compile for it,  where each rendering took a few
> >days/weeks/months, and since then we moved on to the Mac.
> >Because we already made a custom compile for the Atari (only for us), we
> >kept going on for the Macintosh.
> >We now provide a public unofficial compile for PowerPC and 68k Mac's.
> >Because of that, we don't have much time to realy render images but we
> >do hope to start again soon.
> >
> >However, the response we get and the example scenes we receive makes up
> >for this and keeps us going on.
> >
> >We enjoy all the work of the POV-Ray Team and added something extra to
> >it by making available a few third party patches for our platform.
> >Yeeeehhhh, those patches should not be for Windows/DOS/UNIX only!
> >We do realise we only made a few of them available but this is only a
> >mather of time. Not only is the POV-Ray Team planning to include them in
> >there 3.5 release, we might also keep on adding them untill the POV-Ray
> >Team does.
> >
> >We carefully watch this newsserver, picking up all we can.
> >We do not mix in the messages personally (often :-) ), simply because it
> >would take up to much time, time we prefer to spend in developing our
> >unofficial compile.
> >
> >Ok, all you Mac users, let us know who you are, how many of you there
> >are and how you use POV-Ray.
> >What are your needs, what are your skills.
> >And keep in mind that the POV-Ray Team is reading too. All your wishes
> >will be noted by them too (dont't hold back)!  :-) ;-)
> >
> >Nice meetig you,
> >
> >Yvo & Rene Smellenbergh
> >
> >--
> >e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
> >
> >http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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