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==Features==
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==New Features==
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<p>This section covers version 3.7 changes and new features that apply to POV-Ray for Unix. See the section [[Documentation:Tutorial Section 1#Changes and New Features Summary|Changes and New Features Summary]] for information about <em>non-platform</em> specific changes.</p>
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This section lists significant new features in the Unix version of POV-Ray 3.6, compared
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to the last release (3.5). It does not list new features of the rendering engine, but only
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<li> Reworked <code>--benchmark</code>:</li>
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of the Unix version.
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<li>The built-in benchmark now accepts <code>+L<path></code> command-line options</li>
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<li>now <em>ONLY</em> reads the provided any INI file.</li>
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===I/O Restrictions===
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<li> Added preliminary Linux support for these two features:
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The Unix platform specific part of the I/O Restrictions feature has been redesigned for POV-Ray
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3.6.  The <!--<linkto "Configuration file format">configuration file format</linkto>--->[[Documentation:Unix Section 4#Configuration file format|configuration file format]]
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<li> CPU timer; might return incorrect results depending on the platform.</li>
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has changed as well as the way the settings are interpreted. How the I/O Restriction
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<li> signal catching (e.g. when aborting a render by hitting Ctrl+C).</li>
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can be controlled in the Unix version is described in the
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<!--<linkto "I/O Restrictions">I/O Restrictions Documentation</linkto>--->[[Documentation:Unix Section 4#I/O Restrictions|I/O Restrictions Documentation]].
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<li> Added support for <code>--benchmark</code> on unix works together with <code>+wt</code> and print built-in features with <code>--version</code></li>
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<li> Unix default file gamma changed from from 1.0 to 2.2.</li>
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The I/O Restriction code may not be completely mature yet. Please report any bugs you may find.
 
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See the <!--<linkto "Benchmark Rendering Mode">Benchmark Rendering Mode documentation</linkto>--->[[Documentation:Unix Section 6#Benchmark Rendering Mode|Benchmark Rendering Mode documentation]]
 
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===KDE integration===
 
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===What's new in POV-Ray for Unix===
 
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<p>This section covers version 3.7 changes and new features that apply to POV-Ray for Unix. See the section [[Documentation:Tutorial Section 1#Changes and New Features Summary|Changes and New Features Summary]] for information about <em>non-platform</em> specific changes.</p>
 
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New Features

This section covers version 3.7 changes and new features that apply to POV-Ray for Unix. See the section Changes and New Features Summary for information about non-platform specific changes.

  1. Reworked --benchmark:
    • The built-in benchmark now accepts +L<path> command-line options
    • now ONLY reads the provided any INI file.
  2. Added preliminary Linux support for these two features:
    • CPU timer; might return incorrect results depending on the platform.
    • signal catching (e.g. when aborting a render by hitting Ctrl+C).
  3. Added support for 'pause when done' in linux build.
  4. Added support for --benchmark on unix works together with +wt and print built-in features with --version
  5. Unix default file gamma changed from from 1.0 to 2.2.

Display Options

The Unix version now has a single binary which supports display using the X Window System, or using the SVGA library (SVGAlib) on the console (GNU/Linux systems only), or via text graphics otherwise. If the command-line options or INI files turn on display, the following heuristic is used to determine what kind of display should be used. If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, the X Window display is used. Otherwise, if the user is on the console, and has permission to do so, SVGAlib is used. Otherwise, text graphics are used.

Text graphics display a crude 75x24 ASCII version of the image which can be useful none the less to monitor the render progress on a text terminal. Using text graphics and the Verbose (+v) option simultaneously will not work very well.


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