"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't find any item of my personal wish list (except for
> optional parameters) in the revision list of version 3.8.
> These are:
> - spherical heightfields
> - Type-Identification
> - new functions to handle strings/arrays
> - Object-Oriented Programming (Classes)

Spherical heightfields:

"shapes.inc includes shapes_old.inc and contains many macros for working with
objects, and for creating special objects, such as bevelled text, spherical
height fields, and rounded shapes."
https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Shapes.inc
So it ought to be in the drop-down insert menu.

https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5f16dc29%40news.povray.org%3E/

https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C38a2dc5b%40news.povray.org%3E/

> Whether 3.7 or 3.8 makes little difference to me.

3.8 does have some little fixes and things, so I've been running that since it
got released as the beta.

> So I have to wait for Povray 4.0 (year 2030?) and write macros, macros, macros
> ......

Welcome to the club.  It's not big, and you're in it.  ;)

> Or I push my C++ skills and find out if I can work on the development of
> Povray-Sourcode. I've already started but failed (to view/understand/compile the
> source).

jr and I are looking into that.  But at the moment we're both sort of tied up
with too much non-POV-Ray real life drudgery.  :(

> Or I will try the "B-Thing".

:O  Hush.



- BW

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