Mike Raiford wrote:
> One question: b9 seems to complain about the assumed_gamma setting in 
> the scene files. I know to look write a lot of scenes requre their own 
> assumed_gamma setting, now it needs to be on the command line?

Yes, and if you really need to play with assumed_gamma, you are actually 
using it for something it isn't supposed to be used for (adjusting the 
brightness of a scene).  There will be other mechanisms for doing that 
eventually (also on the command-line though).

In case you are wondering why this (and a few other) changes are necessary, 
it has to do with the division of work between the various parts inside 
POV-Ray.  Now that we have a clear structure (in POV-Ray 3.7) various logic 
problems surface that simply did not matter before (where everybody was just 
getting their data where they wanted).  Essentially this setting and a few 
others should never have been in the scene file for this reason, but nobody 
noticed back when it was added.  Over time more patches added things to the 
global settings that they should have been command-line settings as well. 
So now we clean it us.  The upside is, this will make developing newer 
versions of POV-Ray a lot easier and faster because the chance to cause a 
bug by some minor change that some other end of the code depends on its a 
whole lot smaller.

> Since it does require a command line option, enlighten me on what it is?

The same one it used to be in the scene file ;-)

	Thorsten

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