We uploaded our latest version of our unofficial compile for Macintosh.

New in this version: 
    -Upgraded the rendering engine with several patches. 
    -Photons (real caustics). 
    -Light & shadow controls with light groups. 
    -Improved sampling methods for media. 
    -Improved radiosity. 
    -Solid triangle mesh and new mesh type: mesh2. 
    -Smooth color triangle with different colors at each vertex. 
    -New object type: Isoblob. 
    -New patch type: rational bezier. 
    -Object controls 'no_image', 'no_reflection'. 
    -Colored attenuation in objects. 
    -Double_illuminate to illuminate both sides of the object's surface.
    -UV mapping. 
    -Reset child textures, so that transformations only affect the 
      parent texture. 
    -Slope dependent texture. 
    -Several new patterns (triangle, square,....). 
    -Added pigment function in Isosurface. 
    -Transform points with vtransform(). 
    -Trace function to find the intersection point with an object. 
    -New keywords 'image_height' and 'image_width' to use actual image 
      size in the scene. 
    -New keywords 'initial_frame', 'final_frame', 'initial_clock',
      'final_clock' and 'frame_number' to use actual clock
      values in the scene. 
    -Added a link in the camera template to call the normal template. 
    -Added links in the objects template to call pigment, normal and
      finish templates. 
    -Added a panel in the application prefs dialog to set four
      additional include paths. 
    -Added an indicator in the files & paths panel to show if 'use ini'
      is set. 

Fixes and changes in this version: 
    *Fixed a bug in the universal headers, that didn't allow to select
      text and pref files at the same time in the batch. 
    *Fixed several small syntax errors in the template dialogs. 
    *Using the edit button in the batch will also open text files
      (before only pref files). 
    *Fixed a triangle bug. 
    *Fixed number_of_waves bug. 
    *Fixed bug in gamma with focal_blur . 
    *Fixed a bug in movie and pict output. Caused problems when not
      opening the compression dialog. 
    *Adapted all templates for the new keywords (patches). Unofficial
      keywords are shown in blue or with an asterix. 
    *Rearanged layout for object templates. 

You can find all these lovely things at:
http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

Many thanks to all the authors of the patches, especially to Nathan Kopp
who we bothered a bit with our questions and bug reports :-)

Also many thanks to J. Grimbert who helped us getting the no-image and
no-refection patch to work.

Best regards, 

Smellenbergh

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e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe

http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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