PovClipse News

In the year 2007 PovClipse received a total donation of EUR 30,50.

As promised, 10% of the PovClipse donations were donated to a charitable organization.

I upgraded the 10% to EUR 5,00 and donated it to SOS-Kinderdorf International – Austria ( http://www.sos-kinderdorf.at ), Project “SOS-Kinderdorf Rechberg ( http://www.sos-kinderdorf.at/cgi-bin/sos/jsp/retrieve.do?site=AT&hNav=show&fn=2214a_oberoesterreich_rechberg_geat&nav=2.2&cat=/221_childrens_villages ).... read more

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, is available in version 1.0.1.

The most important new features since 1.0.0 are:
Render Messages View:
=> Clicking on a line having a magnifier icon opens the file mentioned in the text and moves the cursor to the indicated line. This allows jumping directly to the error line indicated by Povray.
Editor performance:
=> Refreshing the Outline view after file changes tended to be very slow for big files. A massive performance increase for this part could be accomplished.
Outline View: New entry types:
=> #switch, #while
=> #fopen, #fclose, #read, #write
Bug fixes:
=> Outline view messed-up hierarchy levels if the characters ' or " were used within comments.
=> Corrected some typos in the English translation ... read more

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, has hit the major release 1.0.0!

The most important new features since 0.7.2 are:
=> New official PovClipse Logo: The Povclipse Logo challenge was won by Sebastian Sanabria Diaz, his logo submission is used as the official PovClipse logo.
=> Project managment:
* Project creation wizard including project folder layout management
* Export of projects into an ZIP / TAR / TGZ archive
* Import of projects from an ZIP / TAR / TGZ archive or from a folder
* Povray default library path contains the scene- and include project layout folder
=> Render configurations: partial renderings can now be specified using Pixel or percentage values, previously only percentages were supported.
=> Outline View: new entry types #if, #ifdef, #ifndef
=> Bugfixes... read more

The voting time for the logo challenge is over now, and I'm proud to announce the winner: Sebastian Sanabria Diaz.

Give him a big hand!

As he has won the challenge his submission will be used as the official PovClipse logo in the upcomming PovClipse version.

Please check the news section on the PovClipse homepage ( http://povclipse.sourceforge.net ) or the logo challenge result page in order to get a view of the winning logo.... read more

The PovClipse logo challenge submission period is over, please take a look at the submitted logo proposals and vote for your favourite!

You will find the voting page at http://povclipse.sourceforge.net/ Menu “Logo challenge” => “Gallery and voting”.

The voting period is from 2007-Aug-01 to 2007-Aug-28.

Thanks for voting!

-- Wolf

The logo challenge is active now for 2 month, 3 logo proposals were submitted.

Come on, you can do better than this! Where are the Povray artists, the masters of MegaPOV and other glorious graphical performers?

The logo challenge is active for another month, PovClipse is awaiting your logo proposals!
Please see the Logo challenge page for more details on the logo challenge, including how to participate.

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, is available in version 0.7.2.

The most important new features since 0.7.1 are:
=> New settings for changing the default Povray and MegaPOV include folder (Linux and Mac users will love this option ;-)).
=> Performance optimizations (some configurable using the preferences)
=> PovClipse speaks Portuguese now
=> The logging level can be configured using start parameter
=> Bugfixes... read more

Hi,

PovClipse still lacks a recognizable logo, so a logo challenge has started.
The goal is to contribute a highly recognizable logo to the PovClipse project.

The challenge will be open until 2007-Aug-28, followed by a 4 week voting period.
The PovClipse logo will be picked from the top-3 voted logos.

If you're a graphical person please feel invited to take part in the challenge!

Please check the PovClipse homepage ( http://povclipse.sourceforge.net ) for more details!... read more

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, is available in version 0.7.1.

The most important new features since 0.6.3 are:
=> "Auto save" for dirty editors, configurable using the PovClipse preferences.
=> Image view support now TGA and HDR, thus all imagetypes produced by Povray or MegaPOV can be shown.
=> Configurable templates can be used to create render configurations.
=> Bugfixes... read more

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, is available in version 0.7.0.

The most important new features since 0.6.3 are:
=> Improved table of content for the PovClipse and Povray eclipse help.
=> (Optional) MegaPOV help feature available
=> The Outline view shows the details of an entry using a tree structure.
=> New Outline entry types: texture, pigment, normal, warp, interior_texture,
color_map, pigment_map, image_map, slope_map, normal_map, bump_map, density_map,
finish, density, irid, interior, media, scattering, density, photons, clipped_by, bounded_by
=> Outline entries can be filtered
=> The PovClipse preferences offers independent version check settings for all 3 features
(PovClipse, Povray 3.6 Documentation, MegaPOV 1.2.1 Documentation)... read more

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray and MegaPOV, is available in version 0.6.3.

The most important new features since 0.6.2 are:
=> Support for MegaPOV (keywords as well as using it as renderer)
=> Hovering over a rgb[f|t|ft] or color_map statement displays the
color / color_map in the hover window.
=> Syntax checks displaying error or warning symbols for:
* Include files (error displayed if file can not be found)
* Variable names (error displayed for not known words)
* Macro documentation (warning displayed if a macro has no comment)
=> PovClipse speaks the following new languages:
* Spanish
* French
=> New FAQ section in the documentation ( http://povclipse.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.html )... read more

Hi,

PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray, is available in version 0.6.2.

The new features since 0.6.1:
=> Java 6 (AKA "Mustang") is supported.
=> Povray 3.6 docs integrated into the eclipse help system (optional)
=> If the word below the cursor is listed on the Povray documentation
index page Shift+F2 opens the Povray help at the corresponding page.
=> Holding the Ctrl key activates hypertext on:
* include file name (opens an editor showing the included file)
* macro name (opens an editor showing the #macro code)
* declaration name (opens an editor showing the #declare code.)
=> Information hover on declared names. ... read more

Hi,

I have a XMAS gift for you: PovClipse, the free Eclipse plugin for Povray, is available in version 0.6.1.

The some of the new features since 0.6.0:
=> The editor outline view shows macros names.
=> The completion proposals contains macro names as well.
=> The color and color_map editor displays transmit and filter values using a background pattern.
=> Hovering over a declaration or macro name displays the comment.
=> Hovering over an include statement displays the macros and declaration introduced by the included file.
=> The code-folding hover shows the content syntax highlighted.
=> All hovers can be given the focus using 'F2'.
=> Update check on startup displaying a hint if a new version is available... read more

PovClipse is an eclipse editor plugin for Povray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) sceene- and include files. It features syntax highlighting, code folding, code assist and templates, image and outline view as well as running Povray using render configurations.

New Features in version 0.4.0:
* Code templates
* Image View

PovClipse, an Eclipse plugin for editing Povray (Persistence of Vision raytracer, see http://www.povray.org\) sceene and include files has released its first public version.
If you're editing your Povray sceene files by hand you should check this out!