Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 
> It has taken a long time but we now have the new version ready, we 
> intend to make a short beta phase (about a week, this of course depends 
> if there are problems).  Those who want to test can find the new version 
> at:
> 
> http://megapov.inetart.net/
> 
> You will see we also updated the website with a new sample scene gallery 
> and some other useful information.

Thanks Christoph, and to the MegaPOV Team! The CodeWarrior version seems 
to work fine on my machine (P4 1.6mhz, 512mb ram, Windows 98). It runs 
slightly slower than the (unpatched) official POV-Ray release, but much 
faster than the recommended download.

I'm glad to see mlPOV made it in.... all those other features are cool 
as well (an HDR render I did actually got my older brother to gasp when 
he saw it... rare). All those features are sure to keep me busy.

 > We encourage those who have some experience with POV-Ray to test the
 > beta version - this will help us to find possible flaws which might be
 > there since it was quite some time since the last release.  Please
 > report problems to povray.unofficial.patches.

There does seem to be a bug in the camera_view pigment. When the 
camera_view pigment is placed inside a pigment_pattern block, the (now 
grey) shades of color stop at white and start at black again. In other 
words, if you had a white sphere with light shining in it, the highlight 
  (diffuse finish) would appear to have black rings turning from 
black-to-white instead of one smooth gradation. I'm sure this has to do 
with the fact that the patch can't handle high color values yet. No 
amount of color_mapping helped in this situation. I can make a file 
demonstrating this, if needed.

-Sam

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