With permission of the POV-Ray Team, POV-Ray 3.7 smp Unofficial beta 37
for Macintosh is available:

The application will expire on the 1st of july 2010 (and can be
re-enabled)

Changes 
------------

Please read the "Readme beta" file included in the archives or visit:
http://www.povray.org/beta/


Read carefully which version you should download:

1) 64 bit universal
------------------------
For any Intel-based Macintosh and PPC G5 running Mac OS 10.5 or later,
download the 64 bit version at:
http://megapov.inetart.net/beta/pv37_64_b37.zip
This version is a universal binary containing a 32- and a 64 bit version
for any Intel-base Macintosh and a 64 bit version for PPC G5.
It will not run on systems prior to Mac OS 10.5.

2) 32 bit universal
------------------------
For any Intel-based Macintosh and PPC G5 running Mac OS 10.4 or later
you can download the standard 32 bit version at:
http://megapov.inetart.net/beta/pv37_b37.zip
This version is a universal binary containing a 32 bit version for any
Intel-based Macintosh and a 32 bit for PPC G5.
It will not run on systems prior to Mac OS 10.4.


usual but important stuff:
---------------------------------

Please note that this is an unofficial compile so that Macintosh users
can participate in beta testing.
The UI is the same as MacMegaPOV but the renderer is POV-Ray 3.7 without
any modification.
The UI does not reflect in any way how the final official version for
Macintosh is going to be.

You can report core bugs to the POV-Ray-Team but send all UI related
bugs to yvo(DOT)s(AT)gmx.net

Before sending bug reports, please read about this POV-Ray 3.7 release
and known bugs at:
http://www.povray.org/beta/ 
and make sure the bug isn't reported at:
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/

Please take a few moments to read the "Readme xx" files included in the
package before using the application!

Keep in mind that this is beta software!

Yvo 

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Just tried this, MacBook running 10.4.11, it exits immediately on startup.
MegaPOV 1.2.1 runs fine (that's my regular POV version)... does the binary
expect to live anywhere specific?

Bill

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On 04/29/2010 09:33 AM, Yvo Smellenbergh wrote:
> With permission of the POV-Ray Team, POV-Ray 3.7 smp Unofficial beta 37
> for Macintosh is available:
>

for documentation purposes ... you won't happen to know what the default
value for Work_Threads (+wt) is would you? Windows is number of detected
cores, and linux/unix is 2 ... for completeness I was hoping to add that
information for our Mac friends :-)

cheers
jim

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Am 16.06.2010 01:24, schrieb Jim Holsenback:

> for documentation purposes ... you won't happen to know what the default
> value for Work_Threads (+wt) is would you? Windows is number of detected
> cores, and linux/unix is 2 ... for completeness I was hoping to add that
> information for our Mac friends :-)

The information you have about Linux is outdated; on Linux systems, +WT 
defaults to the number of "online processors" if known and >1, otherwise 
the number of "configured processors" if known and >1, otherwise 4.

Given that POV-Ray 3.7 for Mac is based on the Linux version, I'd 
presume that it uses the same defaults.

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Am 16.06.2010 13:30, schrieb clipka:

> The information you have about Linux is outdated; on Linux systems, +WT
> defaults to the number of "online processors" if known and >1, otherwise
> the number of "configured processors" if known and >1, otherwise 4.

... ah, and not to forget that both Linux and Windows versions cap their 
+WT defaults to 512.

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Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:


> Just tried this, MacBook running 10.4.11, it exits immediately on startup.
> MegaPOV 1.2.1 runs fine (that's my regular POV version)... does the binary
> expect to live anywhere specific?

No, you can unzip the archive anywhere and run the application.
Just to be sure, you downloaded the 32 bit version?
The 64 bit version will not run on Mac OS 10.4.
You need this archive:
http://megapov.inetart.net/beta/pv37_b37.zip
If this is what you use and it doesn't work, please contact me direct
via e-mail so that I can try to fix it.

Yvo

 
> Bill


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Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] povrayorg> wrote:

> On 04/29/2010 09:33 AM, Yvo Smellenbergh wrote:
> > With permission of the POV-Ray Team, POV-Ray 3.7 smp Unofficial beta 37
> > for Macintosh is available:
> >
> 
> for documentation purposes ... you won't happen to know what the default
> value for Work_Threads (+wt) is would you? Windows is number of detected
> cores, and linux/unix is 2 ... for completeness I was hoping to add that
> information for our Mac friends :-)

This can be set via the menu "PovRay 3.7 Unofficial" >> "Preferences" >>
"Misc panel".
The default  is set to "Automatic" and then the number of physical cores
is used.
It is also possible to set any value from 1 to 6 and n-1 or n+1.
Automatic is in most cases the best.

But keep in mind that this is an unofficial version just until an
official version will be out!

Yvo


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Hi everyone!

I just tried to get this beta but it seems, that the links are all down, as well
as the whole beta site from megaPov. Can anyone tell me where else to get the
mac beta? Would be awesome to have a working source for it!!

Thaks in advance!!
m0

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"m0w" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> I just tried to get this beta but it seems, that the links are all down,
> as well as the whole beta site from megaPov. Can anyone tell me where else
> to get the mac beta? Would be awesome to have a working source for it!!

You are looking at beta 37 but now you have to get beta 37a.
Look at this message for it:
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C1jke34d.bnuxoz19nl1naN
%25yvo.s%40cancel_This_gmx.net%3E/

Older versions are always removed.

Yvo

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yvo### [at] cancel_This_gmxnet (Yvo Smellenbergh) wrote:
> "m0w" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > I just tried to get this beta but it seems, that the links are all down,
> > as well as the whole beta site from megaPov. Can anyone tell me where else
> > to get the mac beta? Would be awesome to have a working source for it!!
>
> You are looking at beta 37 but now you have to get beta 37a.
> Look at this message for it:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C1jke34d.bnuxoz19nl1naN
> %25yvo.s%40cancel_This_gmx.net%3E/
>
> Older versions are always removed.
>
> Yvo
>
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> E-mail: yvo(DOT)s(AT)gmx.net


http://megapov.inetart.net/beta/pv37_b37.zip
=> (october 2011) =>
http://megapov.inetart.net/beta/pv37_rc3.zip


seems that we have to guess the link each time ?

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