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Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:38:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeroen de Haan writes:
In lugnet.cad.ray, Ronald Scott Moody writes:
Is anyone else having trouble getting POV-Ray 3.5 to work? I got some sort
of error about macros in the colors.inc file.  What does that mean and is
there something I can do to fix it.  In the meantime, I have just gone back
to 3.1.

Unfortunately, the POV dev team has a history of breaking backwards
compatability in their revisions.  Think back to how they mutilated the halo
feature of 3.0 when they introduced media in 3.1.  Their goal is to force
everyone to use the latest by breaking all the old scripts.

I suspect it'll be quite a while before some of the dust settles from the
3.1 -> 3.5 change.  Until then, I'm recommending that everyone stick with
3.1 and MegaPOV.  FWIW, the vast majority of the new 3.5 features are
already present in MegaPOV, albeit using different syntax...

I also expierenced errors in MegaPOV after installing POV-Ray 3.5. Is that
possible? Does MetaPOV use the POV-Ray eninge?

AFAIK, MegaPOV has *NOT* been updated to be compatable with POVRay 3.5.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
 
"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:GzrFGw.AJx@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) that (...) I too had problems with 3.5 so went back and installed 3.1. WRT MegaPOV - where is the best place to download the current version of (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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  Re: Trouble with POV 3.5
 
(...) Yeah, it has something to do with POV-Ray switching "versions" before loading colors.inc. I tried to delete the lines but didn't help much. Think Lars has to change the code in L3P a bit. I also expierenced errors in MegaPOV after installing (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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