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3 May 2024 11:13:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why I won't enter PoVComp again.  
From: Renderdog
Date: 24 Feb 2005 20:30:01
Message: <web.421e7e56cbe05eba4c7dbec50@news.povray.org>
"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> I know that, but wouldn't ever have won *anyway* with the way I WANTED TO
> USE IT.

Let me get this straight, you're complaining you wouldn't have won,
based on a few judges comments, when you didn't even *enter*?
You just don't know that. As others have pointed out, many of the top
rated images used a lot of meshes.

> POVCOMP won't happen again, (I haven't had answers to my question about
> if POVCOMP will happen again).

Again, you don't know that. However if I'd worked hard to bring this
event about and had to read unappreciative rants like yours I'd seriously
reconsider whether it was worth it.

> I hope you're not taking the #### with that statement. Seriously. ;)

Sorry, I don't understand this.

> I wanted to enter to try and get a computer for my daughter for Christmas.
> That was my drive, nothing else, (think how pissed-off I am with messing my
> detail images up!)  I'll find it easy to NOT enter another povcomp now,
> unless of course, I use pure SDL. (Which might happen. Just because I use
> Wings mostly now, it doesn't mean I *can't* do the *pure* thing - although
> people just forget in here. I 'do' have the patience to do it).
>
>  My ART would be extremely limited though. PoV doesn't adjust profusely for
> this, art-wise, generally.
>
>   Go Figure. ;)

You're posts read very emotional and you aren't responding to some
very good points Warp and Gilles have made.

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