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- Short: Official POV-Ray (tm) V3.02c RayTracer
- Author: newkirk@wearefamily.com (Joel NewKirk,POV-Team)
- Uploader: newkirk@wearefamily.com (Joel NewKirk)
- Version: 3.02c (30-Nov-1997)
- Type: gfx/3d
- Requires: >OS2.1, >2MB RAM, ~5MB HD space, any display, any CPU (no-FPU)
- Replaces: gfx/3d/pov3demo.lha
-
- Official Persistence of Vision(tm) V3.02c Amiga Release 30-NOV-97
-
- This release of POV-Ray Amiga incorporates the following changes
- since V3.0 release.
-
- - updated EHB and Grey displays to allow AGA resolutions, (IE, 640x480 EHB)
- and Grey now supports 256 shade greyscale.
-
- - Improvements and tweaks to CyberGraphics and Picasso96 displays.
-
- - picture.datatype loader now allows you to create heightfields and maps
- using any image format you have a datatype for. (>OS3)
-
- - considerably faster (up to ~40%) due to SAS/C 6.58 and completely
- rewritten memory handling code.
-
- - GUI is completely localized (only English and Italian catalogs so far...)
-
- - GUI allows multiple sequential renders, in an editable queue.
-
- For full details go to the POV-Ray Amiga support page at:
- http://www.amigaworld.com/support/povamiga
-
- or the general POV-Ray support site at:
- http://www.povray.org
-
-
-
- The archives for POV-Ray Amiga are as follows:
-
- POVAmFPU.lha for systems with 68881/68882 math chip
- POVAm040.lha for 040 based Amigas
- POVAm060.lha for 060 based Amigas
- POVAmNFP.lha for any non-FPU system (not recommended)
- POVAmPPC.lha for PowerPC based Amigas (available Christmas 97)
- POVIllus.lha Illustrations for HTML documentation (optional, but suggested)
-
- For a comlete installation, download the appropriate main archive based
- on your system, and the POVIllus.lha archive. Extrtact both archives
- to RAM: and click the "Install_POV-Ray" icon. You will need about 5 MB
- of space on your hard drive for the main installation, about 1.3 MB more
- for the illustrations. (And of course you should have lots of room for
- the pictures you are going to make 8^)
- Start with the document "AmigaPOV.htm" for Amiga docs, and "povray.html"
- for the general docs, tutorial and reference guide. Documentation is
- also reachable online at the support site.
-