MegaPOV Team wrote:
>MegaPOV is a collection of unofficial extensions for the freeware
>raytracer POV-Ray.  It is maintained by a group of POV-Community
>members - the MegaPOV Team. It was rewritten for POV-Ray 3.5
>source code and it is now available at its new website:
>
>http://megapov.inetart.net/
>
>Go, download, read documentation, have fun.
>
>Let's start New Year with new quality! :-)
>
>MegaPOV Team
>

yippee!!!  a DOS version!  I was feeling glum since I couldn't seem to find
3.5 in DOS, but since this version has it plus the Megapov extras I feel
much better... now I just need to get all the #include folders and 3.5 docs
copied over and I'll be set :)

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dan
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Dan Byers wrote:
> 
> yippee!!!  a DOS version!  I was feeling glum since I couldn't seem to find
> 3.5 in DOS, but since this version has it plus the Megapov extras I feel
> much better... now I just need to get all the #include folders and 3.5 docs
> copied over and I'll be set :)

It should be mentioned that POV-Ray 3.5 is not compatible to DOS filename
restrictions (8+3).  Since the basic POV-Ray 3.5 distribution is required
for correctly running MegaPOV this is really only for hardcore DOS users
who accept the need to manually tweak things.  

Christoph

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:


> I'm a bit irritated...I had asked to be included in updating my patches
> for the new version. The displace warp is outdated, and updating the old

Well Chris, for some reason you never answered a mail I send you a few
weeks ago, perhaps you never received it.

Like Chris Hormann said before you should not worry too much about it.
Nothing has to remain the same and nothing is preventing us from
changing things in a next version.

The e-mail I send you today bounced back. Do you still have your account
at mac.com?
You still use it while posting in this ng.

Yvo


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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:


 
> Is there a specific reason why total times, at least for the Mac version are
> reported incorrectly?  I.e. isocacti.pov reports a total time that is less
> than the trace time...
> 
>     Thorsten
There have been no changes as far as I know.
I did a test and indeed there seems to be a problem.
However if you look at the seconds alone it is correct.
It looks like a conversion problem.
I will find out if this happens also in the Windows version.



Yvo


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In article <1fo2qcy.19ici8k1yzetmkN%yvos.s@gmx.net>,
 yvo### [at] gmxnet (Yvo Smellenbergh) wrote:

> Well Chris, for some reason you never answered a mail I send you a few
> weeks ago, perhaps you never received it.

Looking through my old emails, I found it. It was about the time I was 
moving back home from college, it just got set aside and forgotten. I 
also upgraded to OS X 10.2 about that time, I might have drafted a reply 
and lost it in importing the old mailboxes.


> The e-mail I send you today bounced back. Do you still have your account
> at mac.com?
> You still use it while posting in this ng.

The correct address is in my signature, I just fixed the other setting. 
The mac.com address has been dead for a while (since "free for a 
lifetime" turned into "$100 a year"), I don't know how that setting 
survived.

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In article <1fo2qiq.ix0vys5a5vcwN%yvos.s@gmx.net> , yvos.s@gmx.net (Yvo 
Smellenbergh) wrote:

>> Is there a specific reason why total times, at least for the Mac version are
>> reported incorrectly?  I.e. isocacti.pov reports a total time that is less
>> than the trace time...
>
> There have been no changes as far as I know.
> I did a test and indeed there seems to be a problem.
> However if you look at the seconds alone it is correct.
> It looks like a conversion problem.
> I will find out if this happens also in the Windows version.

I guess it is some rounding error in the default split time then.
Essentially the sub-second precision of that function is useless (because it
measure "OS scheduler noise").  So I will try to provide a better version of
that function for 3.51.

    Thorsten


PS: Is there any special trick to view the generic documentation?  It
doesn't work properly under IE 5.0/5.2 Mac, Netscape 4.79 Mac, the Mac OS
8/9 Help Viewer or the Mac OS X Help Center.  As far as the error are
concerned, IE does not render any of the examples correctly (some linefeed
problem in the HTML I guess), Netscape does not render most of it at all
(not really surprising though), and the Help Viewer/Center on the one hand
never supported style sheets, but the cross-links don't work either, and
there are some warning messages displayed (different ones, let me know if
you want the exact text).  Oh, and apparently some images are not there
because I get broken image images in all four programs.

____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>   Btw, what happened to the post-processing effects? They were handy.
We will try to put it back in but we have to rerwrite it.

We do know users want it but the MP-Team voted against readding the mp
0.7 version.
So, you will have to look out for a next version.

Yvo



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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>   The new features look exciting. I have never tried any of the scattered
> patches for 3.5 as I have been waiting for the unified patch, MegaPOV.
> It will be interesting to play with those.

Especially because MegaPOV is backwards compatible with Pov-Ray 3.5.
You can not go wrong by using MegaPOV.
If you don't use MegaPOV features, your results are the same and you are
virtually using Pov-Ray (official version), at least that is what we
agreed in the first place ;-) .

Yvo
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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:


> I guess it is some rounding error in the default split time then.
> Essentially the sub-second precision of that function is useless (because it
> measure "OS scheduler noise").  So I will try to provide a better version of
> that function for 3.51.
Great!  Merging MP 1.0 with Pov-Ray 3.5.1 is a next step for us.

 
> PS: Is there any special trick to view the generic documentation?  It
> doesn't work properly under IE 5.0/5.2 Mac, Netscape 4.79 Mac, the Mac OS
Ok, it is rather special...
You should view these docs under X with Netscape 7.0.1 or Mozilla.
Don't use IE because IE... I prefer IE for day to day use but whenever
there is something special, IE messes up. Perhaps Bill doesn't like
Mac's? :-) :-)
Well... no,  we will have to figure out what is wrong in the docs.

Personally I use Chimera for OS X. A very nice browser for OS X.
We do know that the docs are not perfect for the mac builds of MegaPOV
but they will have to do for now.
We will try to improve things for a next release.


whenever possible you should use X and not -X.
I had to rerun 9 to test the classic version and the first thing I
encountered  was a total system freeze. I didn't had that for months
while running X!

Trying to convince the guys at http://www.versiontracker.com to fix the
links for people using system 8.5 or lower was a hard job. This shows
how many people are using X.

But you are right, the Mac docs must improve.
Yvo 


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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> In article <1fo2qcy.19ici8k1yzetmkN%yvos.s@gmx.net>,
>  yvo### [at] gmxnet (Yvo Smellenbergh) wrote:
> 
> > Well Chris, for some reason you never answered a mail I send you a few
> > weeks ago, perhaps you never received it.
> 
> Looking through my old emails, I found it. It was about the time I was
> moving back home from college, it just got set aside and forgotten. I
> also upgraded to OS X 10.2 about that time, I might have drafted a reply
> and lost it in importing the old mailboxes.
That is what we were thinking about, more important events for you at
that moment.
The reason the Glow_Patch was readded was that users wanted it back,
even if it wasn't perfect.
MegaPOV is suitable for "features-under-development". 

Simply contact me by e-mail to agree on a next update. 
 
> > The e-mail I send you today bounced back. Do you still have your account
> > at mac.com?
> > You still use it while posting in this ng.
You are still a Tag-member, arent't you? Why don't you use that as
signature when posting in these groups?
While being a Tag-member, you should be reacheable ;-)

> The correct address is in my signature, I just fixed the other setting.
> The mac.com address has been dead for a while (since "free for a 
> lifetime" turned into "$100 a year"), I don't know how that setting 
> survived.


Yvo


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