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Port of FS246 - Regression on scale limit between 3.7 and previous releases

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/246 (Ported on the chance some change in behavior might be considered, but I think closing OK. Confirmed behavior remains unchanged as of today. All older POV-Ray source I have...

wfpokorny

Update scene files for best practice 3.7 onward gamma handling.

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/106 (Issue originally opened way back in 2011 and looks to have never been completely implemented. I argue strongly we not use conversion macros as suggested, but rather re-write where...

wfpokorny

Port of FS41 - improve command-line parsing error messages

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/41 --------------- Details: POV-Ray 3.6, upon encountering problems when parsing command line and/or .ini file options, would quote the offending option in the error message. POV-Ray 3.7 currently just reports...

wfpokorny

Port of FS28 - #debug message not displayed.

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/28 --------------- Details: The #debug message stream is only being flushed when it hits a newline character, instead of after each #debug statement. This means that some final strings don't...

wfpokorny

Port of FS98 - Refactor Windows UI code for Unicode support

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/98 --------------- Details: Windows UI code should be refactored to use _TCHAR throughout instead of char, as well as the corresponding string function macros, to head for Unicode support. ---------------...

wfpokorny

Undocumented features of commit 54b283a

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Opening this issue so we at some point resolve whether these features stick around in the code base or not - and if so we document them. Ref commit: 54b283a....

wfpokorny

We should investigate using the `-Bsymbolic` and `-fno-semantic-interposition` compiler switches in our Unix build process to try and improve performance, as suggested here: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ny7wk6/

c-lipka

Port of FS226 - Near-coincident surface accuracy. Less accuracy in 3.7.

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/226 --- Details: This is a transparent box very close to a plane. ``` box { -1, 1 pigment { rgbf } } plane { #if (version < 3.7) y,...

wfpokorny

Port of FS324 - 3.7 mesh2 rendering artifact, regression from 3.6.

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http://bugs.povray.org/task/324 POV-Ray as of 3.7.1 commit 3cd6b6c still shows the original issue. For all files from original report see: FS324.zip --- Details: Povray 3.7 has rendering artifact in meshes with...

wfpokorny

parametric with clipped_by or in intersection has holes

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A parametric get truncated to its first intersection when used with clipped_by or inside an intersection. Other intersections seems to be dismissed. Illustration with clipped_by  Illustration with intersection ...

LeForgeron