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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.