Hello,

I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a 
side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really 
belong there anymore.

Jim

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Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a 
> side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really 
> belong there anymore.

  It would be nice if there would be a set of cool scenes showcasing all the
new features of POV-Ray 3.7. Preferably scenes which are nigh impossible (or
very laborious) to get with v3.6

  Of course there aren't that many new (visible) features in 3.7, but the
few that are (eg. HDRI and area highlights) should be showcased prominently.

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                                                          - Warp

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>  It would be nice if there would be a set of cool scenes showcasing all 
> the
> new features of POV-Ray 3.7. Preferably scenes which are nigh impossible 
> (or
> very laborious) to get with v3.6
>
>  Of course there aren't that many new (visible) features in 3.7, but the
> few that are (eg. HDRI and area highlights) should be showcased 
> prominently.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

good idea .... now all that's left is to line up some contributors. at this 
point i've not thought much about this aspect of the effort. i would say 
that some sort of selection criteria is in order. i'm not to interested in 
this becomming (for lack of a better word) a contest where judging is 
involved .... hmmmm not sure of a way around this. i'm for kicking this 
around some ....

Jim

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"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a 
> side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really 
> belong there anymore.

i've got the latest beta downloaded and installed. the biscuit scene renders 
fine. i did notice that the examples scenes didn't come with this setup. i 
know it's bad etiquette but a while back i may have stepped on more than one 
or two of the scene files that came with v3.6 install. that brings to mind 
how can we be sure that we are all working from the same files? is there a 
place to go get (ftp) just the example files or am i just going to have to 
get them from the last stable install?

finally .... i have "ksh" and perl on my windows machine (a win nt to unix 
migration tool) and i could very easily produce a manifest of all the 
example files. that might help in trying to figure out how to carve this up 
into who's working on what.

Jim

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"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> i did notice that the examples scenes didn't come with this setup.

doh! i see them in the application data folder .... my bad

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At least one example scene showcasing the area highlights could be based
on this test render of mine:
  http://warp.povusers.org/images/arealighttest3.jpg

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a 
>> side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really 
>> belong there anymore.
> 
>   It would be nice if there would be a set of cool scenes showcasing all the
> new features of POV-Ray 3.7. Preferably scenes which are nigh impossible (or
> very laborious) to get with v3.6
> 
>   Of course there aren't that many new (visible) features in 3.7, but the
> few that are (eg. HDRI and area highlights) should be showcased prominently.

Apart from that it would be nice to get some fresh air into the advanced
scenes subdir (or create a new sub-section called 'samples' or something).
basically to get some more 'real' sample scenes into the distribution;
there's surely a lot of nice work out there, perhaps some authors would be
willing to contribute some nice scenes (either on a derivative-work-ok or
possibly a no-derivatives basis).

While I still think examples such as fish13 are interesting, they do smell
a little of mothballs :-)

-- Chris

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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> good idea .... now all that's left is to line up some contributors. at this 
> point i've not thought much about this aspect of the effort. i would say 
> that some sort of selection criteria is in order. i'm not to interested in 
> this becomming (for lack of a better word) a contest where judging is 
> involved .... hmmmm not sure of a way around this. i'm for kicking this 
> around some ....

sounds like a good topic for the first or second round of the new IRTC ...

-- Chris

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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> "Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:48877ccc@news.povray.org...
>> i did notice that the examples scenes didn't come with this setup.
> 
> doh! i see them in the application data folder .... my bad 

I should probably put a README in the program files/scenes folder to remind
folks where they've moved to.

-- Chris

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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> how can we be sure that we are all working from the same files? is there a 
> place to go get (ftp) just the example files or am i just going to have to 
> get them from the last stable install?

please use the files that came with the latest beta.

if you need an FTP dir for uploading the results please let me know.

-- Chris

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