the reason i prefer renaming is because other programs that use pov
don't have the dialog like moray does.  for example, texture view looks
only for pvengine.exe.  so if you were to try to render a megapov
texture it wouldn't work.  so to be safe, i do the renaming game. :)

Jamie Davison wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:24 -0700, Ryan Constantine wrote...
> > which version of povray are you using?  IIRC, pov 3.1 doesn't handle
> > fonts as well as megapov does.  i could be wrong though.  you can render
> > to megapov by putting the megapov exe in the same place as the pov exe,
> > changing the name of the pov exe to something else, and the name of
> > megapov to pov's original name.  that way all programs that call pov can
> > find it easily.
> 
> Or you can use MegaPOV far more easily by pressing alt-F9, and changing
> the POV-ray executable to the megapov executabe of your choice without
> having to go through all the hassle of copying and renaming files...
> 
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

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