St. wrote:

> And there you go. A nice meaningful suggestion/idea would *still* have 
> been received with abrasive answers.

A nice, meaningful suggestion/idea would not have been met with 
harshness. Yes-- there may have been some debate, but when all is said, 
the poster would not be viciously lynched (I think) as was in this case.

But nice/helpful was not my perception of the OP's tone. Crass and rude 
seems more like it. Maybe its the OP's writing style. Look at his 
website, he seems very... uhm.. egotistical.

> a little over five years now, and truly, I couldn't wish for a better 
> community, and wouldn't want a better bunch of <users> than in these 
> groups.

I tend to agree, this is, for the most part, a good group of people. I'm 
a relative newcomer to these groups.. So I don't quite know everything.

> Now, Paris comes along, (a future prospect for the above), and although 
> I don't fully understand what he was wanting, (without studying fully 
> about his topics), I wanted to see what else he had to say because he 
> seemed knowledgable in a 'different' direction, and I'm all for that if 
> it helps PoV-Ray.

He did not appear knowledgable enough to make the claims he was making.
He did not appear to be helpful...

One idea that does exist, and would be nice to see in the official 
binaries is renderman-compatible shader capability. I've played with 
POVMan, and am impressed, but the compiler should have been incorporated 
  into the rendering engine.

His post had all the halmarks of just simply complaining, without 
contributing enough in the way of ideas.

> Sincerely, there's a few 'chips-on-shoulders' around here where pride 
> was probably hurt, and some people shouldn't have posted what they did.

There are.. I'm probably one of those. I've used POVRay since 0.9 all 
the way to the current version. I've been around the program for a very 
long time. I remember when it was a big deal that 1.0 came out. I 
remember when atmosphere and halo were added and when they were changed 
to media. I remember how big a deal adding radiosity was, when it was 
added. I remember reading "Its not possible" so many times, and the 
suddenly and finally became possible.

>  That's the way I see it.
> 
>   My tuppence.



>  ~Steve~
> 
> 


-- 
~Mike

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