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FTPOV 1.1
A port of the Faster-Than-POV source, with additional extra features. Speeds
up rendering times of POV using first hit and light buffers, at the expense
of slightly extra memory. Snow, ground fog, glowing light sources and extra
textures have also been added in this port.
POVRAY21e
A recompile of the POV source, with additional extra features. The POVRAY21e
binary is about 20k less than than the FTPOV11 binary, so may prove useful
when operating under minimal memory conditions. I remember unplugging the
majority of modules in ROS311, and running POV from the supervisor prompt
(I'd unplugged the desktop module) when I had my little A3000 with only 2mb.
The 'e' suffix means that it
Instructions On Use
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If you're using the POV front end, open the !POVray2 application, rename
the file 'povray2' to something like 'oldpov'. Copy POVRAY21e into the
directory, and rename it to 'povray2'. The front end will now run the new
version.
FTPOV11 cannot be used from the front end, because there is nowhere in the
front end to add additional command line options. Sorry, but you'll have
to run it from the command line! (Gasps of horror from the ensuing masses)
See the POV file for documentation on the command line options. If you're
still stuck, you could always ask Brian Ruth to update the front end.
The Features
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These are documented briefly in the Features textfile, and the various bits
of code and details from the authors are contained in the authors directory.
Distribution
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As far as I'm concerned, you can do what you like with this, however other
people may have other ideas. You are requested to refer to the files
regarding the various parts of this build as to how you are allowed to
distribute it.
As a general rule of thumb (don't quote me on this!) you can do what you like
with it as long as you don't charge for it, and that you make sure that the
authors are given full credit for their work. You must also keep all of the
files together, especially the POVLegal file, and the Authors sub- directory,
because that's where all the legal stuff is.
Credits
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Completely unofficial port of Faster-Than-POV v2.1, with a couple of
additional bits thrown in for fun.
Compiled by Brian Tucker (bt1@doc.ic.ac.uk)
RISC-OS code by Adam Hamilton (aph@swindon.gpsemi.com)
FTPOV v2.1 by Dieter Bayer (dieter@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
POVAFX10 by Marcos Fajardo (mfajardo@freenet.hut.fi)
GroundFog by Kari Kivisalo (kkivisal@vipunen.hut.fi)
DirichletDomains by annonymous
Snow by Robert J. MacG. Dawson (rdawson@husky1.stmarys.ca)
My thanks goes out to all the authours who so willingly stuck there code in
the public domain, if there are any problems, you'd better report them to me
(Brian), since as soon as you mention RISC-OS, most of them won't have a clue
about what you're talking about.
Thanks especially to Adam Hamilton for giving me his small routine that swaps
the DOS filenames around. It means that this is compatible with the version
he released. With a bit of luck I might be able to persuade him to compile a
version that works with the Floating Point Co-Processor.
Happy tracing
Brian Tucker
(bt1@doc.ic.ac.uk)