- a completely rewritten and much more universal configure script.
see INSTALL for more information.
- new documentation format. It has been tested with several newer
browsers, Netscape 4.x will not work well unless you disable style
sheets.
Note some of the png images do not display correctly in some newer
versions of Konqueror. This is a bug in Konqueror. A possible
workaround would be to process all png images through the NetPBM
tools:
pngtopnm image_old.png | pnmtopng > image.png
- new default locations for the configuration files (povray.ini and
povray.conf). See chapter 1 of the documentation for details.
- a new io-restrictions configuration file format. The new format is
not compatible to 3.5 but due to the changed file locations this
does not prevent parallel use of POV-Ray 3.5 and 3.6.
- sample scene render scripts. See section 1.3.6 of the docs for
instructions how to use them.
- a benchmark rendering mode: see section 1.6.2 of the docs.
- KDE integration (file types and panel icons) If someone here is
familiar with doing the same kind of thing in GNOME this would be
helpful.
- various internal changes not directly visible to the user.
Summary of changes in version 3.5:
Major new features:
* New noise functions
* Photon mapping
* Dispersion
* Improved Radiosity
* New light sources
* Light groups
* Isosurface and parametric objects
* Sphere sweep object
* New mesh object
* UV Mapping
* Improved textures
* Improved and faster media
* New patterns
* Functions
Additional new features:
* Reading of JPEG and TIFF image formats
* Projected through
* More realistic attenuation
* New clock keywords
* New image size keywords
* Inverse transform
* Spherical camera
* New float function: inside
* Splines
* Metallic reflection
* Mapping using warps
* Double illuminate flag
* No image and no reflection flags
* Basic Unicode Support
* Declare a float constant from an INI file
Bug fixes and enhancements:
* Light source enhancements
* Fixed normal average, reflection and other related problems
* Fixed cylinder camera problems
* Fixed the use of multiple closed bezier-splines in prism
* Fixed infinite cone bug
* Fixed the use of two subsequent colors, not separated by a comma in
checker, hexagon and bricks.
* Fixed gamma correct bugs
* Numerous other bug fixes and optimizations
