SMPOV (128 kb alltogether) is ready in Version 1

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Mabe you have heared that this or the other Rendering-program can distribute
Rendering on "8 PC's or 16 PC's at the same time".

Download this 129 kb und you can render your next picture on 100 PC's at the
same time
 AND you can use all local avaible CPU's. = distributed computing.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This new Version includes:

- Simple "drag 'n drop" user-Interface. Drop your file in, get a pic out.

- Render your picture on as many CPU's as you can get.
   No diffrence if they are local or in any PC in the Network.

-  full support for Animations.inclusiive "SubSet of Frames"-rendering.
(!NEW!)

- All explanations in english PLUS english Readme.txt with an detailed,
in-depth explanation (as good as I can :-).

- Can tile one picture up to 25x25 (=625 tiles) (each rendered somewhere
else :-).

- High-Speed picture-appender (puts 100 Tiles together while you hold your
breath).

- fully multithreaded (look in the Taskmanager how many threads SMPOV has).
- Reset-proof (tries to recover after a system-crash - includes the
RenderAgents on the Clients) (!NEW!)
- "Common.ini" - File where you can set genreal "INI"-options for all
rendered Files

Further:
- no need of any instrallation under W2k
- no Need of any installation on any Client-PC (I did not test it under W9x
however).
- You can also use the program to distribute Full pictures to other PC's for
rendering.

AND THE BEST:                                      ITS FREE.
Its my contribution to those people who gave me the POV 3.5 for free - the
best Raytracing Programm I know. (I have increased the  dispersion_samples -
now I see the rainbow colours !).

MY QUESTION:
What is the preferred way to inform interested people that the program
exists ?
FAQ, WEB-Site ? Can there be a link somewhere on the POV-Site ?

PLEASE:
report your experiences to me.

THE current place where i put it WEB SITE:
Download-Link:SMPOV
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov1.exe

Runtimes (install only if needed) !
http://www.it-berater.or/runtimes.exe

Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm


Why I need this program (Look the pic):
http://www.theogott.de/seite1.htm


--Theo Gottwald
---------------------
6.4 GHz alltogether for POV 3.5

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:10:50 +0200, "Theo Gottwald *"
<The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> Download this 129 kb und you can render your next picture on 100 PC's at the
> same time
> AND you can use all local avaible CPU's. = distributed computing.

Sound interesting. I hope it also works interesting. I have not started/tested
it yet but I have some suggestions you could consider for next version. Should
I express it ?

> - Render your picture on as many CPU's as you can get.
>   No diffrence if they are local or in any PC in the Network.

What should be started on other computers ?

> - All explanations in english PLUS english Readme.txt with an detailed,
> in-depth explanation (as good as I can :-).

A web page is not in english as far as I can see

> - High-Speed picture-appender (puts 100 Tiles together while you hold your
> breath).

Does it hurts ? ;-)

> Further:
> - no need of any instrallation under W2k

Does it work under nt4 ?

> - no Need of any installation on any Client-PC (I did not test it under W9x
> however).

I don't get it. So how it starts instances ib client-pc ? I plan to use it on
some important computers and don'w want be surprized with some hacks.

> AND THE BEST:                                      ITS FREE.

Does this mean it is legal and you have full rights to distribute binaries ?
Would it be possible to publish source files to compile it? Using it on
important machines could be dangerous so I prefer compile it myself.

> Can there be a link somewhere on the POV-Site ?

You can send request to Ken to add link to pov-links collection.

> Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
> http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

Screenshots are not readable since can't be zoomed.

> Why I need this program (Look the pic):
> http://www.theogott.de/seite1.htm

Can't read dvd titles ;-)

ABX

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> Sound interesting. I hope it also works interesting. I have not
started/tested
> it yet but I have some suggestions you could consider for next version.
Should
> I express it ?

### YES - I'll comment below your sentences.

> > - Render your picture on as many CPU's as you can get.
> >   No diffrence if they are local or in any PC in the Network.
> What should be started on other computers ?
### Better first try it.


> A web page is not in english as far as I can see
### I hope to change that today. below you can read that the WEB-Page is
still in work :-)


> > - High-Speed picture-appender (puts 100 Tiles together while you hold
your
> > breath).
> Does it hurts ? ;-)
### depends on the MHz of your processor and on your graficscard (uses
bitblt :-).

> > - no need of any instrallation under W2k
> Does it work under nt4 ?
### try it and tell me pls. I've use a few API's to set process priority.
Thats the only critical point i think.

> I don't get it. So how it starts instances ib client-pc ? I plan to use it
on  some important computers and don'w want be surprized with some hacks.
### The render-agent itself cannot be started over the network. YOU start it
"by hand". The render-agent starts however the rendering process
automatically.
### think of the Render-Agent as your employee ...
### The renderagent is the only file you need to transfer to the client PC.
It has 25 kb, it does not make any registry-entires or changes in the
file-system outside
### its own directory or outside its COM-Folder. It does not connect to the
internet. It connects however to its COM Folder.

> Does this mean it is legal and you have full rights to distribute binaries
?
### I have just programmed it myself. So why not ?

> Would it be possible to publish source files to compile it? Using it on
important machines could be dangerous so I prefer compile it myself.
### It is written in Powerbasic 7.0 (see www.Powerbasic.com ). The
source-code may be shared at a later time after it is cleaned up, then for
all interested people.
### The whole project is a few days old now, and I am happy that it runs as
I wanted.
###
### To be safe that there is no hack inside, just put a personal firewall on
your PC, or try the program with a registry monitor.
### As said it will not try to connect anywhere else other then in its own
folder or in the COM Folder.
### It doesn not write anything in the registry.
### I don't distribute hacks I guess there are other organizations in USA
who are more intrested in doing that. :-)

### I see one option: If there is official interest from the POV-Ray Team I
would give them the source code for doing changes and then including it in
the windows-package.
### However that does not change the fact that the thing is programmed in
Powerbasic and (picture-pender) in Visual Basic.

### But then I need to know who is who ... :-)

> You can send request to Ken to add link to pov-links collection.
### Hall Ken, may I request your support to the best of your knowledge ?

### OK I did that. Maybe Ken is with us ?

> > Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
> > http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
>
> Screenshots are not readable since can't be zoomed.
### Is in work ! (the pictures are already up on the server they're just not
linked).

> > Why I need this program (Look the pic):
> > http://www.theogott.de/seite1.htm
>
> Can't read dvd titles ;-)
### Its Ballerburg, Theme Park Manager, COMANCHE and Serious Sam :-).
>
> ABX

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Theo Gottwald * wrote:

> MY QUESTION:
> What is the preferred way to inform interested people that the program
> exists ?
> FAQ, WEB-Site ?

Besides advertising here on the news groups you might try contacting
Rick at http://povray.co.uk and see if he will put up a little news
article for you. Many POV-Ray users visit that site.

> Can there be a link somewhere on the POV-Site ?

On the links pages, yes.

 
> THE current place where i put it WEB SITE:
> Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
> http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

Will the above link be your permanent and official website for this
utility or is it likely to change in the future?

-- 
Ken Tyler

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>
> Besides advertising here on the news groups you might try contacting
> Rick at http://povray.co.uk and see if he will put up a little news
> article for you. Many POV-Ray users visit that site.

Ok, I'll think of that after the WEB-Site is ready & english.
Thanks for the tip, Ken.

> On the links pages, yes. Thats all they need.
Its only for interest for those small percentage of users who have a) more
then 1 CPU or b) more then 1 PC.
However they could be interested. So all I want is that they have a chance
to find what they look for.

> > THE current place where i put it WEB SITE:
> > Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
> > http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
>
> Will the above link be your permanent and official website for this
> utility or is it likely to change in the future?

## We will hereby decide that this link is permanent, otherwise you would
need to change the links page every week and
## something tells me that you much more intresting things to do :-) !.
## Thanks for putting the Link up, Ken !

--Theo
http://www.it-berater.org

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:45:11 +0200, "Theo Gottwald *"
<The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

What an awful "###". It hurts eyes :-(
Is it your favourite setting or default by Outlook ?

> ### YES - I'll comment below your sentences.

Would it be possible to start agent as service on destination machine ?
In example I don't want to forbid to login other users during rendering.
What is priority of started pov-ray instance ?
How agent behaves when povray crashes during parsing/rendering ?

> > > - Render your picture on as many CPU's as you can get.
> > >   No diffrence if they are local or in any PC in the Network.
> > What should be started on other computers ?
> ### Better first try it.

How could I try it withot knowing if I shoud start something ;-)

> ### The render-agent itself cannot be started over the network. YOU start it
> "by hand". The render-agent starts however the rendering process
> automatically.

Can I set some priority of agent similiar to priority of POV-Ray (render
priority, gui priority, duty cycles) ?
How it behave when some agent would be lost/unplugged ?
I know I can find answers installing it but I don't have testing network. I
have working and important network. I have to know as much as possible before
installation.

> > Does this mean it is legal and you have full rights to distribute binaries
> ?
> ### I have just programmed it myself. So why not ?

Becouse license of programming tool tells different ?

> > Would it be possible to publish source files to compile it? Using it on
> important machines could be dangerous so I prefer compile it myself.
> ### It is written in Powerbasic 7.0 (see www.Powerbasic.com ).

I will see waht's that.

> The
> source-code may be shared at a later time after it is cleaned up, then for
> all interested people.

like me :-)

> ### The whole project is a few days old now, and I am happy that it runs as
> I wanted.

so now make it usfull for others :-)

> ### To be safe that there is no hack inside, just put a personal firewall on
> your PC, or try the program with a registry monitor.

I can't install personal firewall on company database server :-)
Again, I prefer to know as much as possible _before_ installation.
Reading sources could help :-)

> ### I see one option: If there is official interest from the POV-Ray Team I
> would give them the source code for doing changes and then including it in
> the windows-package.

Since it is different programming platform I doubt it could be easy.
Better try to investigate windows sources and (if necessary) learn C(++) if
you really want help :-)
Oh, I've seen some C++ books on your shelf so perhaps You are already ready to
code. If you do it don't forget to announce it to be included in
http://abx.art.pl/pov/patches/

> ### But then I need to know who is who ... :-)

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/297/

> > You can send request to Ken to add link to pov-links collection.
> ### Hall Ken, may I request your support to the best of your knowledge ?

http://www.google.com/search?q=ken+pov-links

> ### OK I did that. Maybe Ken is with us ?

http://tag.povray.org/

ABX

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Theo Gottwald * wrote:

> > Will the above link be your permanent and official website for this
> > utility or is it likely to change in the future?
> 
> ## We will hereby decide that this link is permanent, otherwise you would
> need to change the links page every week and
> ## something tells me that you much more intresting things to do :-) !.
> ## Thanks for putting the Link up, Ken !

Look for it in the next day or two. I'll try to update the site tonight
when I get home but it may take a while for it to cycle through the
system.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:29:38 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> I'll try to update the site tonight

Will be this major update or only for Theo ? I still can't find my Insert Menu
Bonus Pack listed in links. Would you like also to add section "POV-Ray
Patches v3.5" to "POV-Ray Unofficial Patches and Front End Programs" and list
there my http://www.abx.art.pl/patches/ ? Thanks in advance!

ABX

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ABX wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:29:38 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> > I'll try to update the site tonight
> 
> Will be this major update or only for Theo ? I still can't find my Insert Menu
> Bonus Pack listed in links. Would you like also to add section "POV-Ray
> Patches v3.5" to "POV-Ray Unofficial Patches and Front End Programs" and list
> there my http://www.abx.art.pl/patches/ ? Thanks in advance!

That URL does not work :(

If you provide a working link I will include you in the update.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:42:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> > http://www.abx.art.pl/patches/ 
>
> That URL does not work :(

sorry, written in hurry :-(

http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/patches/

and for Insert Menu Bonus Pack:

http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/bonus/

ABX

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ABX wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:42:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> sorry, written in hurry :-(
> 
> http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/patches/
>


Povray 3.5 is only 1 month old, and there is already so much patches!!!
At this rate, even starting to think about 4.0 is a lost of time: by the 
time the first decision is made, there would be a huge amount of patches...

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(first part got lost :-( )

+++ an "RenderaAgent 2" which will automatically force POV-Ray to the 
taskbar :-). (minimize)

> In example I don't want to forbid to login other users during 
rendering.

+++ Is not necessary. At the moment you have to be logged on and POV-Ray 
must be running.

+++ Under Windows XP you have more options cause you can have one users 
programms running while 

+++ another user is logged on. The second user cannot see what programs 
the first user has running.

> What is priority of started pov-ray instance ?

+++ There is a Button "Low Prio." If you press it, the POV Process has 
LOW Priority (under W2k at least).

> How agent behaves when povray crashes during parsing/rendering ?

+++ If the PC crashes, Agent may try a recover.

+++ IF ONLY the POV process is ended, the RenderAgent thinks POV Ray has 
ended (what is infact the case) and continues

+++ so in the later case you have to redo that Job.

> How could I try it withot knowing if I shoud start something ;-)

+++ Download the archive, start the "SMPOV1.exe" it will unpack to all 
the necessary files and the Readme.txt.

> Can I set some priority of agent similiar to priority of POV-Ray 
(render

> priority, gui priority, duty cycles) ?

+++ Currently not, I did not need that till now.

+++ Try the program and find out if you really need more options. Then 
we talk about it for version 2.

+++ Its thinkable that there will be another RenderAgent in a few weeks 
(minimize-Feature?).

> How it behave when some agent would be lost/unplugged ?

+++ Each Agent has 4 Slots. If you plan to "unplug" an Agent, you must 
first unplug the Slots,

+++ then wait till he is ready with the current Job, then you can reboot 
or do whatever.

+++ If you reboot while the Agent is "busy", you must re-start the agent 
after the reboot (for an automatic cleanup)

+++ otherwise your pic would not be complete.

> I know I can find answers installing it but I don't have testing 
network. I have working and important network. I have to know as much as 
possible before

> installation.

+++ I can understand that. Just ask. Its your good right to know all 
necessary before running an "unknownn exe".

+++ Do the following: Run SMPOV.exe on your Main-PC and run ! instance 
of Renderagen on any other PC of your choice.

+++ Remember to share the COM Folder so he is accessible.

+++ Then first try to understand the system with 1 running RenderAgent. 
You'll find it quite simpel after that. 

+++ Then after some time you can put as many Renderagents everywhere in 
your network where you think they are in place.


> Becouse license of programming tool tells different ?

+++ I don't deliver the programming tool. You have to go to 
www.powerbasic.com and buy it for yourself.

+++ However I can do with my program what i want (still ..).

> > ### It is written in Powerbasic 7.0 (see www.Powerbasic.com ).

> 

> I will see waht's that.

+++ Thats recommendable.

+++ If you look in the FORUM you'll see some comments from me.

> > ### The whole project is a few days old now, and I am happy that it 
runs as I wanted.

> so now make it usfull for others :-)

+++ It shall be beautiful too, when I release it. Otherwise the people 
say "oh other fathers have nice daughters too" :-).

> I can't install personal firewall on company database server :-)

+++ I cannot really recommend to put POV 3.5 to rendering on a company 
database-server.

+++ Ok, if its your company. (I know ABB ... But Hmmm ABX ???)

> Again, I prefer to know as much as possible _before_ installation. 
Reading sources could help :-)

+++ Come here and read em, my adress is on the web-site.

+++ they are not secret, I just don't want em to fly away in my name

+++ before they look like something you can give away.

> Since it is different programming platform I doubt it could be easy.

> Better try to investigate windows sources and (if necessary) learn 
C(++) if

> you really want help :-)

+++ I am making big circles round C wheter its ++ or ## ... as often as 
I can :-).

> Oh, I've seen some C++ books on your shelf so perhaps You are already 
ready to code. 

+++ I did that in the past. But in that case I did not want to code but 
get results, 

+++ so I choose PB for the Project.

+++ Small, strong, no installation necessary. Inline ASM when needed. 
Multithreading ...

+++ 128 kb as a result. You can put ten copies on a Floppy-Disk.

+++ Thats code from me.

+++ Short code ... Hmm maybe I should do some funny thing and post the 
code for the render-agent here ... its only a few pages.

+++ But I guess thats OFF-topic ...

If you do it don't forget to announce it to be included in

> http://abx.art.pl/pov/patches/

+++But its not a patch. You'll have to announce it in \Add-On's :-)

--Theo

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Attachments:
Download 'iso-8859-1' (8 KB)

Whatever is ok,
I also must first clean up the WEB-Site.

--Theo

"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3D5A5B42.7FEBAA5A@pacbell.net...
>
>
> Theo Gottwald * wrote:
>
> > > Will the above link be your permanent and official website for this
> > > utility or is it likely to change in the future?
> >
> > ## We will hereby decide that this link is permanent, otherwise you
would
> > need to change the links page every week and
> > ## something tells me that you much more intresting things to do :-) !.
> > ## Thanks for putting the Link up, Ken !
>
> Look for it in the next day or two. I'll try to update the site tonight
> when I get home but it may take a while for it to cycle through the
> system.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler

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Patches ...
I don't like patches so much, cause they interfere in a well tested system.

Then often you should have test on the whole system to be shure it works.

So  I decided to make an "Add-On". It does not manipulate anything in
POV 3.5 - just takes it as an Employee ...

So you can take This Add-On as YOUR employee.

--Theo


"Le Forgeron" <jgr### [at] freefr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3D5### [at] freefr...
> ABX wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:42:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> >
> > sorry, written in hurry :-(
> >
> > http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/patches/
> >
>
>
> Povray 3.5 is only 1 month old, and there is already so much patches!!!
> At this rate, even starting to think about 4.0 is a lost of time: by the
> time the first decision is made, there would be a huge amount of
patches...
>

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:20:05 +0200, Le Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Povray 3.5 is only 1 month old

Sources are even younger.

> and there is already so much patches!!!

There is only 6 patches but multiplied by categorization.

I have list of about ten patches to do but I'm limited becouse can't setup my
favourite enviroment at home. I wonder if I should add place to my site where
people could add requests and own plans.

> At this rate, even starting to think about 4.0 is a lost of time: by the 
> time the first decision is made, there would be a huge amount of patches...

Should patch writers stop ?

ABX

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:28:45 +0200, "Theo Gottwald *"
<The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> > In example I don't want to forbid to login other users during rendering.
>
> Is not necessary. At the moment you have to be logged on and POV-Ray must be
running.
> Under Windows XP you have more options cause you can have one users programms
running while 
> another user is logged on. The second user cannot see what programs the first user
has running.

I don't have Windows XP. I have a few admins and each one login for his tasks.
I don't want each user to be logged all the time. I don't want to not use
power when nobody is logged.

> > How agent behaves when povray crashes during parsing/rendering ?
>
> If the PC crashes, Agent may try a recover.

will agent start automatically ?

> IF ONLY the POV process is ended, the RenderAgent thinks POV Ray has ended (what is
infact the case) and continues

can't it validate image if it is correct ?

> > How could I try it withot knowing if I shoud start something ;-)
>
> Download the archive, start the "SMPOV1.exe" it will unpack to all the necessary
files and the Readme.txt.

Can you distribute it as zip ? Have I really to start exe to get txt ?

> > Can I set some priority of agent similiar to priority of POV-Ray (render
> > priority, gui priority, duty cycles) ?
>
> Currently not, I did not need that till now.

That's a useful feature.

> > How it behave when some agent would be lost/unplugged ?
>
> If you plan to "unplug" an Agent

I don't mean intentional unplugging but crash of computer or kill from other
user.

> > I know I can find answers installing it but I don't have testing network. I have
working and important network. I have to know as much as possible before
> > installation.
>
> I can understand that. Just ask. Its your good right to know all necessary before
running an "unknownn exe".
> Do the following: Run SMPOV.exe on your Main-PC and run !

isn't SMPOV.exe kind of "unknownn exe" ?

> > Becouse license of programming tool tells different ?
>
> I don't deliver the programming tool.

You use programming tool according to its license but I suppose if you have it
legal you distribute it legal.

> > I can't install personal firewall on company database server :-)
>
> I cannot really recommend to put POV 3.5 to rendering on a company database-server.

Why ? With low priority and with save settings on system...
My database-server has 2 GB RAM, 2 procs, >1GHz only 4% of power used for
database. If I can use it safe why not ? The question is: can I use it safe ?

> Small, strong, no installation necessary. Inline ASM when needed. Multithreading ...

...not portable, compiler dependand, community with interest is different than
community with programming knowledge

> Thats code from me.

Isn't that only calls to runtime library ?

ABX

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Maybe my last comment was not qualified. I did not see those patches before.

Now I've looked up the page and I think maybe these patches are necessary.

To ABX: Can I get a SP 1 when its ready :-) ?

--Theo


"Theo Gottwald *" <The### [at] t-onlinede> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3d5a6a39$1@news.povray.org...
> Patches ...
> I don't like patches so much, cause they interfere in a well tested
system.
>
> Then often you should have test on the whole system to be shure it works.
>
> So  I decided to make an "Add-On". It does not manipulate anything in
> POV 3.5 - just takes it as an Employee ...
>
> So you can take This Add-On as YOUR employee.
>
> --Theo
>
>
> "Le Forgeron" <jgr### [at] freefr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3D5### [at] freefr...
> > ABX wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:42:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> > >
> > > sorry, written in hurry :-(
> > >
> > > http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/patches/
> > >
> >
> >
> > Povray 3.5 is only 1 month old, and there is already so much patches!!!
> > At this rate, even starting to think about 4.0 is a lost of time: by the
> > time the first decision is made, there would be a huge amount of
> patches...
> >
>
>

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Theo, just checking, but this will work on a dual-processor, single, PC
correct? That would be great.
D.

"Theo Gottwald *" <The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
news:3d5a3aa4$1@news.povray.org...
> SMPOV (128 kb alltogether) is ready in Version 1
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Mabe you have heared that this or the other Rendering-program can
distribute
> Rendering on "8 PC's or 16 PC's at the same time".
>
> Download this 129 kb und you can render your next picture on 100 PC's at
the
> same time
>  AND you can use all local avaible CPU's. = distributed computing.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> This new Version includes:
>
> - Simple "drag 'n drop" user-Interface. Drop your file in, get a pic out.
>
> - Render your picture on as many CPU's as you can get.
>    No diffrence if they are local or in any PC in the Network.
>
> -  full support for Animations.inclusiive "SubSet of Frames"-rendering.
> (!NEW!)
>
> - All explanations in english PLUS english Readme.txt with an detailed,
> in-depth explanation (as good as I can :-).
>
> - Can tile one picture up to 25x25 (=625 tiles) (each rendered somewhere
> else :-).
>
> - High-Speed picture-appender (puts 100 Tiles together while you hold your
> breath).
>
> - fully multithreaded (look in the Taskmanager how many threads SMPOV
has).
> - Reset-proof (tries to recover after a system-crash - includes the
> RenderAgents on the Clients) (!NEW!)
> - "Common.ini" - File where you can set genreal "INI"-options for all
> rendered Files
>
> Further:
> - no need of any instrallation under W2k
> - no Need of any installation on any Client-PC (I did not test it under
W9x
> however).
> - You can also use the program to distribute Full pictures to other PC's
for
> rendering.
>
> AND THE BEST:                                      ITS FREE.
> Its my contribution to those people who gave me the POV 3.5 for free - the
> best Raytracing Programm I know. (I have increased the
 dispersion_samples -
> now I see the rainbow colours !).
>
> MY QUESTION:
> What is the preferred way to inform interested people that the program
> exists ?
> FAQ, WEB-Site ? Can there be a link somewhere on the POV-Site ?
>
> PLEASE:
> report your experiences to me.
>
> THE current place where i put it WEB SITE:
> Download-Link:SMPOV
> http://www.it-berater.org/smpov1.exe
>
> Runtimes (install only if needed) !
> http://www.it-berater.or/runtimes.exe
>
> Explanation and screen-shots (at time of this writing in work):
> http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
>
>
> Why I need this program (Look the pic):
> http://www.theogott.de/seite1.htm
>
>
> --Theo Gottwald
> ---------------------
> 6.4 GHz alltogether for POV 3.5
>
>
>
>
>
>

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ABX wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:20:05 +0200, Le Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> 

>>and there is already so much patches!!!
>>
> 
> There is only 6 patches but multiplied by categorization.
> 


The first time I looked at it, there were only three. And that was not 
so long time ago. Today 6, looks like they are multiplying like rabbits.


> I have list of about ten patches to do but I'm limited becouse can't setup my
> favourite enviroment at home. I wonder if I should add place to my site where
> people could add requests and own plans.
> 


That would be a good idea, avoiding people to go in a somehow similar 
direction with not-compatible ideas.

Then you would get a tons of non-programmers pushing for one or another 
on your agenda!
Soon, opposite supporters will make riot and kidnap free programmers.


> 
>>At this rate, even starting to think about 4.0 is a lost of time: by the 
>>time the first decision is made, there would be a huge amount of patches...
>>
> 
> Should patch writers stop ?


No, of course not.
It would just make the work of povteam more difficult if the concepts 
are moving too much.
I believe there will be a high number of patches right after the source 
code, and then things will calm down. Then it will be time...

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