Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS 
10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have 
Panther, the wait is not needed!.

~Matt

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Unfortunately Panther breaks some of the other OS X applications that I use
(most notably LightWave 7.5C), but that's good to know... thanks Matthew!

"Matthew Pace" <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote in message
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> Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS
> 10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have
> Panther, the wait is not needed!.
>
> ~Matt

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I would love to know what you did, Matt, because I just installed Panther on
my G5 and POV-Ray 3.5 is still misbehaving. It no longer *crashes* when you
try to open a file, but it still refuses to actually open any *.pov or
*.inc files. The batch renderer doesn't work either.

Matthew Pace wrote:
>Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS
>10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have
>Panther, the wait is not needed!.
>
>~Matt
>

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In article <web.3fa1983d6d7771a85aba4bf0@news.povray.org>,
 "Scott Gammans" <deepgloathatesspamaatyahoodotcom> wrote:

> I would love to know what you did, Matt, because I just installed Panther on
> my G5 and POV-Ray 3.5 is still misbehaving. It no longer *crashes* when you
> try to open a file, but it still refuses to actually open any *.pov or
> *.inc files. The batch renderer doesn't work either.
> 
> Matthew Pace wrote:
> >Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS
> >10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have
> >Panther, the wait is not needed!.
> >
> >~Matt
> >
> 

I started out by installing Panther ;) .  Then it worked.  The problem 
may be because you are using a G5.  I havent tested POV on our G5 yet, 
most notably because we do not have a monitor for it.  Everything runs 
fine, albeit rather slow, on my G4 800mhz with Panther

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Thanks. It turns out that it doesn't really matter anyway, since I need to
be able to run POV-Ray from a batch file to work around an image map memory
bug I've already reported with long-running animations, and of course there
is no command line on Macintoshes (at least not the GUI version of POV-Ray).
Since animations have to be run completely from within POV-Ray/Mac and the
bug seems to also exist on the Mac, there's not much point in trying to get
the existing POV-Ray/Mac to work until the final version 3.5.1 comes out
(which apparently no longer exhibits the memory allocation bug I reported).

"Matthew Pace" <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote in message
news:mat### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> In article <web.3fa1983d6d7771a85aba4bf0@news.povray.org>,
>  "Scott Gammans" <deepgloathatesspamaatyahoodotcom> wrote:
>
> > I would love to know what you did, Matt, because I just installed
Panther on
> > my G5 and POV-Ray 3.5 is still misbehaving. It no longer *crashes* when
you
> > try to open a file, but it still refuses to actually open any *.pov or
> > *.inc files. The batch renderer doesn't work either.
> >
> > Matthew Pace wrote:
> > >Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS
> > >10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have
> > >Panther, the wait is not needed!.
> > >
> > >~Matt
> > >
> >
>
> I started out by installing Panther ;) .  Then it worked.  The problem
> may be because you are using a G5.  I havent tested POV on our G5 yet,
> most notably because we do not have a monitor for it.  Everything runs
> fine, albeit rather slow, on my G4 800mhz with Panther

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In article <3f9fd230$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Scott Gammans" <dee### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Unfortunately Panther breaks some of the other OS X applications that I use
> (most notably LightWave 7.5C), but that's good to know... thanks Matthew!
> 
> "Matthew Pace" <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote in message
> news:mat### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> > Note to all macintosh users:  POV-RAY 3.5 opens files seamlessly in OS
> > 10.3 ("Panther").  So, if you were waiting to update, and you have
> > Panther, the wait is not needed!.
> >
> > ~Matt

you can install X11 from apple, then install fink, a tool to download 
programs easily.  Once you do that, simply type "fink install povray" 
without the quotes, and youll be set to go with a command-line version 
of povray.

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