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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>1.3. Why should i use MegaPOV?</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="megapov.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="MegaPOV Documentation"><link rel="up" href="introduction.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><link rel="previous" href="news.html" title="1.2. What's new"><link rel="next" href="enable.html" title="1.4. Enabling MegaPOV features"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">1.3. Why should i use MegaPOV?</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="news.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="enable.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="why"></a>1.3. Why should i use MegaPOV?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
In case you are new to <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ and maybe have not even used the official <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ before it is
not recommended to use MegaPOV. Instead get the official <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ from the <a href="http://www.povray.org/" target="_top"><span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ website</a>.
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MegaPOV will be interesting for more advanced <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ users who are particularly interested
in the additional functionality the patches offer. We try to ensure a relatively high quality of the
patches added to MegaPOV but still some of these patches are still under development
so you have to expect that not everything will run as smoothly as on official <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ and that features
will possibly change in future versions.
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Some people may wonder why a MegaPOV version is still maintained when most MegaPOV features have been incorporated and
improved in <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ 3.5. Here are some reasons why:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact><li>There are already several patched versions of <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ 3.5;</li><li>Many patched versions are only available for a specific platform;</li><li>You often need to switch between patched versions for different features;</li><li>The next update of <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™ will probably take some time;</li><li>MegaPOV is a public test version. Features which prove to be popular and more or less bug free might get the
attention of the <span class="trademark">POV-Team</span>™ and make it into the next <span class="trademark">POV-Ray</span>™.</li></ul></div><p>
So the MegaPOV-Team collects available patches, tries to merge them into one
patch collection and makes it available for the most common platforms.
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