CShake <cshake+pov### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Maybe that is why, of all things, HDR images was one of the first Megapov
> > features to find its way into 3.7 POV: It's mostly about reading & writing an
> > image file format, which is, so to speak, "located comparatively far from 3.7
> > architectural changes": Image file handling has traditionally been done via
> > libraries, and POV 3.7 didn't modify those.
>
> What I'm missing in 3.7 is 'map_type 7' for using light probes. I'm glad
> HDR support is there, but I have all my HDR images in probe format.
> Spherical mapping isn't the same, I keep seeing the blue outline around
> the real image in parts of the sky.

.... which may be because image map types are implemented in the engine, and not
somewhere on the periphery, so integrating the 3.6 patch into 3.7 code may be
more difficult than integrating the HDR image format support.

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