"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Ross wrote:
> >
> > I know that the linux version has some faults to it. it has atleast one
> > potential buffer overflow bug, and segfaults in several usages that i'd
> > consider typical. i think the windows/dos version has the same problems.
i'm
> > probably 97% done with a new tga2df3 that improves performance
dramatically
> > in my testing, taking less than half as long.
>
> Before you invest too much work into that note that there is a POV-Ray
> patch available that among other things allows to sample and write a
> POV-Ray pattern to a df3 file directly, without needing to render a
> stack of tgas:
>
> http://staff.aist.go.jp/r-suzuki/e/povray/iso/df_body.htm
>
> Christoph
>
>

neato. is that going to be in the official 3.6? if so, it's a much more
elegant solution i think. otherwise, i had an itch to scratch and i
scratched it ;)

thanks for the link.

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