#POV 2.0
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Will POV 2.0 render any faster then POV1.0?
Also POV1.0 ibmicb wont display renderings any higher than 640×480 .I have the
source is there a way to change it to at least 800×600?
Thanks,
Sam
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Sam,
POV 2.0 will have automatic bounding slabs, so will *almost always*
render faster than 1.0… often much faster.
You probably can't display > 640×480 because either your video card
doesn't support it or you've got the switches set wrong.
With my STB Ergo (TSENG4, Hicolor) I can't go over 640×480 in hicolor
mode, but I can if I preview in palette-based mode (ugh!).
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Dan, I have a speedstar24x and I have three different versions of POV-Ray the
ones I got through the image lab book and from TSL( shareware company) run fine
in svga but the one I u/l frome here ( ibmicb ) wont and it is the only one
that will run in windows (also it runs a little faster I think) .
Thanks,
Sam
<btw> I'm still working on POV-Ray News but I dont know when it will be
finished (it's kinda turning into a tutorial for beginers/intermediate
covering problems you might encounter) .
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Sam,
>(it's kinda turning into a tutorial for beginers/intermediate
>covering problems you might encounter) .
That's where your audience is.
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Dan, I've got a problem, I am getting an out of memory error and I can't for
the life of me remember how to set the omount of memory for POV to use . can
you please help me?
Thanks,
Sam
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You need to run POVMOD. It'll tell you what to do.
(I just ran out of mem on a 20K triangle file. I had it running under
program control and it then attempted an 80K triangle file <G>)
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Sam,
Run "POVMOD POVRAY.EXE" , select <Modify Region Size>, and (generally)
just <Accept> the value that it suggests. If you're running DOS, it's
not a bad idea to run a chkdsk /f first, along with cleaning up any
other garbage you may have sitting around (in other words, maximize your
available disk space in any way you can before running POVMOD).
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Thanks dan, the real problem I had was just the name of the file (povmod) which
I couldnt find, but the real problem was I didnt have enough disk space ont my
C: drive and I was trying to render an extremely large file (the bigest and in
my opinion the best I've done so far ) created (about 80%) by PV3d and its
looking realy good.
I'll be adding a basic tutorial in the POV-Ray News for PV3D because the
documentation is realy dificult to understand but some of the functions are
invaluable and I would hate for someone to miss out on these functions because
they couldnt understand how to use them or didn't know they existed.
I'm starting to babble again so I'm outta here.Thanks,
Sa
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Sam,
I ran into Lecointe on TGA yesterday. Boy, that guy is unstoppable!
He's now adding a texture editor of some sort, as well as a few other
features. I suggested (as delicately as I could) that he may be well
advised to hold off on the new features and clean up what he's already
done. I think part of the problem is that he just isn't getting the
feedback that he needs.
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