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From: newsadmin
Subject: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 09:11:43
Message: <37835257.8150906@news.povray.org>
The windows 3.1g is available from www.povray.org. There is no upgrade file
this time since the help file (which makes up the bulk of the distribution) has
changed.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 09:16:15
Message: <37835197.C67ED0B4@pacbell.net>
POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
> 
> The windows 3.1g is available from www.povray.org. There is no upgrade file
> this time since the help file (which makes up the bulk of the distribution) has
> changed.

Thank you Chris !!!  

One question - Why worry about the help file ? No one reads it anyway  :)

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Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: TonyB
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 10:42:43
Message: <37835958.354EF54B@panama.phoenix.net>
> One question - Why worry about the help file ? No one reads it anyway  :)

That is so true, at least for this new group of kids that seems to be coming in... I
remember back in my day, man, we used to read the help file every time we wanted to
do something in pov. If you didn't know how to do it, you'd look it up... Then we
discovered 'newsgroups', and the good ol' days were no more...

Well, I'm off to my 'g'... Thanks again POV-Team.

--
Anthony L. Bennett
http://welcome.to/TonyB

Graphics rendered
by the Dreamachine.


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From: Nieminen Mika
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 11:59:04
Message: <37837948@news.povray.org>
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
: One question - Why worry about the help file ? No one reads it anyway  :)

  I read them all the time... :)

  It would be nice to know what changes has be made to the help while to
see if it's worth of downloading (I have to carry everything to my home
computer with floppys...).

  Another question: Will the new version install over the old one without
problems or will I need to make something else before installing?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 12:12:21
Message: <37837CFF.FA791E01@inapg.inra.fr>
TonyB wrote:

> > One question - Why worry about the help file ? No one reads it anyway  :)
>
> That is so true, at least for this new group of kids that seems to be coming in... I
> remember back in my day, man, we used to read the help file every time we wanted to
> do something in pov. If you didn't know how to do it, you'd look it up... Then we
> discovered 'newsgroups', and the good ol' days were no more...
>

I can see the time where some people will buy something called "eggs" from the net and
then will turn to newsgroup asking how to cook them, because, ya know, it looked nice
and so i just downloaded it and i can't figure out what this "shell" thing is and do i
need to remove it before eating the egg and...

Thanks for the "g", Pov-team.

Gilles


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 14:15:20
Message: <37839913.A9866EA8@pacbell.net>
POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
> 
> The windows 3.1g is available from www.povray.org. There is no upgrade file
> this time since the help file (which makes up the bulk of the distribution) has
> changed.


Here are the changes between public POV-Ray 3.1 and 3.1g

3.1g               04/26/99 Chris Young
Fixed 4d vector bug

3.1f               04/22/99 Chris Young
Fixed problem with missing ) in #write that crashed
Fixed bump_map bug introduced in 3.1e
Fixed problem with empty textures
Fixed #macro inside #while problem
Trapped vnormalize(<0,0,0>)
Updated copyright, removed compuserve

3.1e               03/05/99 Chris Young
Fixed bump_map bug introduced in 3.1a
Misc unix/linux fixes and cleanups

3.1d               1/30/99 Chris Young
Fixed crash in #write of vector or float
Added #write and #read now support 2d, 4d, & 5d vectors.

3.1c               1/29/99 Chris Young
Fixed radiosity preview with odd screen size.
Reinitialized max_trace_level & radiosity_trace_level properly
Fixed token at end of file with no cr/lf or newline

3.1b               1/18/99 Chris Young
Blob elements transformed after textures now works
Can now declare 2D vectors
Can now declare 4D vectors
Can now declare 5D vectors as colors
Fixed vector.v bug
Partial fix to bump_map bugs
Fixed bug involving "once" and "interpolate"
Fixed reflection leak bug
Fixed potential GPF in ListReflect
Fixed normal checker, hexagon bug
Fixed skysphere with no color_map crash
Fixed transform identifier parsing problem
Fixed #local with same name as #declare of different type bug
Fixed average normal bug and other normal flipping problems
Removed double_illuminate for normal{} but retained it for
  smooth_triangle, smoothed height_fields, and bicubic_patch. Will
  redesign in 3.5 and consider added optional keyword double_illuminate.
Fixed normal{average} with no map crash
Fixed various conic_sweep prism bugs
Change in resumed render line numbering
Fixed focal blur gamma correction bug
Fixed recursive include overflow bug
Fixed recursive macro overflow bug
Fixed #write double closing which crashed Linux
Delete degenerate smooth_triangles when normals bend too much.
Many MS-Dos changes so C++ compiler can be used.
Changed EPSILON small value in MS-Dos version

3.1a               9/29/98 Chris Young
Fixed problem with sor and lathe affecting unix and amiga
Fixed fclose in FILE_EXISTS
Fixed crackle and black_hole use of POV_SRAND.
  Note POV_SRAND and POV_RAND no longer reconfigurable
  in frame.h or config.h.  If you redefined them on your
  platform -- don't.



-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 14:41:33
Message: <37839f5d@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:14:43 -0700, Ken wrote:
>Here are the changes between public POV-Ray 3.1 and 3.1g

You missed these windows-specific changes, from changes.txt:

                         Changes as of version 3.1g
                         --------------------------

  o Fixed resource leakage when using the render window select function.
  o A few other minor changes/bugfixes.

One of those "minor changes/bugfixes" is the PPS counter with +am2.


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From: Rick
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 22:14:38
Message: <3784098e@news.povray.org>
woohoo!

Rick


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From: Alan Kong
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 22:16:40
Message: <37850753.71432659@news.povray.org>
On 7 Jul 1999 11:59:04 -0400, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

>  Another question: Will the new version install over the old one without
>problems or will I need to make something else before installing?

  Hi, Warp. Dummy me *accidentally* deleted the Install.log file that
POV-Ray for Windows uses to perform an uninstall. Consequently, I had to
install over my v3.1e and it simply moved any files it replaced to the
user-specified Backup directory.

  Chris usually advises people to perform an uninstall as this method may
clean up the Registry better than simply installing on top of an older
version (I haven't verified this). To be safe, just be sure to save anything
you want to keep to another location, such as scene and .ini files, and
customized Insert Menu items.

-- 
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From: Ken
Subject: Re: 3.1g out
Date: 7 Jul 1999 22:34:50
Message: <37840DBA.DD5E7D89@pacbell.net>
Alan Kong wrote:
 To be safe, just be sure to save anything
> you want to keep to another location, such as scene and .ini files, and
> customized Insert Menu items.

To be "safe" I go into the directory I am installing into and change
each of the major directory names to something different than what
the install program uses. This way I don't have to move a bunch of files
around and if any problems occur and I need to restore customized files
they are all sitting there untouched. Oh clever me who was once not so
clever and regretted it greatly !

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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