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Development => Development (General) => Topic started by: trekiej on April 15, 2019, 09:30:52 PM

Title: PovRay 3.7
Post by: trekiej on April 15, 2019, 09:30:52 PM

Povray 3.7 is multi-core aware.
Is Aros 64 SMP far along enough to handle this application?
What other Raytracers do you think would be a good candidate?

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: salvatore on April 16, 2019, 06:00:47 AM

I was thinking later with fabio falcucci to do a gui for this program!

hi

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: trekiej on April 16, 2019, 09:49:46 AM

That sounds like a good idea.

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: salvatore on April 16, 2019, 12:21:21 PM

stay tuned

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: trekiej on February 12, 2021, 04:06:48 AM

I was wondering if Povray 3.7 could be finally ported to Aros 64 SMP.
Any way it could be?

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: Amiwell on February 12, 2021, 06:32:48 AM

aros 64 was discussed, mazze also intervened saying that we need funds to carry on the development and also a lot of funds, at this point only time will tell us what they will be able to conclude on this, I think that only after a stable version we can talk about software porting  :-\

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: miker1264 on February 12, 2021, 07:07:56 AM

AROS 64bit is stable. Much more stable than 32bit running Magellan.

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: Amiwell on February 12, 2021, 07:30:54 AM

I haven't been able to boot from the nightly yet it shows you developers have a fairly mature version  :)

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: miker1264 on February 12, 2021, 09:02:03 AM

It seems @aGGreSSor is making progress in that area.

His works now using a virtual machine.

VMWare is better than VirtualBox it seems. Check your settings.

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: Amiwell on February 12, 2021, 09:08:31 AM

i am not using virtual machines only native, i have always been using aros natively

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: miker1264 on February 12, 2021, 12:27:26 PM

The issues will be sorted out in due time and some exciting new features will be added and maybe someday sound will work too for 64bit. PovRay and other apps will be updated by their authors to support running on 64bit.

People such as Kalamatee and Mazze and Deadwood are the true developers. They do the heavy lifting, handling the more technical aspects. I'm just a junior programmer who likes to experiment. I prefer working with Icons and Graphics Apps, sometimes Filesystems and Disk Imaging.

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: Amiwell on February 13, 2021, 06:16:45 AM

yes miker we are aware of the development by nick and mazze behind the system, and that deadwood are taking care of the backports

Title: Re: PovRay 3.7
Post by: Amiwell on February 13, 2021, 06:19:38 AM

as for povray we have on abiv0 the penultimate version "3.6.1" which is very powerful at least for those familiar with this program