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POVRAY 3.0 Compiled QUAD Fat for NEXTSTEP ----------------------------------------- This archive contains a full BINARY release of POVRAY 3.0 for use with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. It has not been tested with anything but NS 3.3. Do not redistribute without reading the licensing agreement. PRINTING THE MANUAL ------------------- The manual is awesome; it is well written, contains lots of illustrations, has an excellent tutorial followed by an excellent technical reference. It is 406 pages long. To save on paper, do: gzip -d -c < povdoc.ps.gz | psnup -G | open This will open the psnup'd output in Preview... as long as your eyes are pretty good, the final printed output is quite readable and you will save a bunch of paper. The manual is formatted for output in book form; so if you have a double-sided printer, definitely do use it. INSTALLING THE PACKAGE ---------------------- 1) Unarchive the distribution (this will result in a directory tree rooted at 'povray3/' that contains everything needed to run POVRAY; including initialization files, the binary, and full documentation. 2) Copy the povray3 directory to some common library directory; both /usr/local/lib/ and /LocalDeveloper/lib are likely candidates. 3) Copy the povray3/povray quad-fat binary to a bin directory that is in your PATH. /usr/local/bin/ is a good place. 4) Copy the povray3/povray.1 man page to a standard man directory; /usr/local/man/man1/ is appropriate. Within the povray3 directory, a postscript version of the man page is available as povray3/povray.1.ps. 5) Copy the povray3/dot-povrayrc file to ~/.povrayrc. This file supplies the basic configuration to the povray rendering engine whenever a scene is rendered. All of the options in the file can be overridden on the command line. Open the file and modify it as appropriate. Most notably, you may want to change the output file format. It is set to PNG within the configuration file, but without a PNG viewer, the extremely high quality of a PNG file will not do you much good. 6) Copy some of the sample scenes from the povray3/ hierarchy into some useful place and render a few test scenes. That's it! ---- I have written an image viewer that can view PNG files in their full, stunning, with-transparency glory. It will be made available shortly. If you have any questions or problems, please send email to: <bbum@friday.com> enjoy. b.bum
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.