4.1.1 New Features in POV-Ray 3.5/3.6

The list is in no particular order.

• Multiple open source files
• Carbon compatibility
• Easier to use Render Settings dialog
• Extended preferences dialog
• Improved text editor window with popup menus to jump to markers, declares, macros and includes and show dependent files
• Search Menu (Find, Replace, etc) with regular expression searching
• Faster syntax coloring
• Symbol coloring
• Faster image preview window
• Batch render multiple files with the extended Render Quene window
• Preview and search templates in POV-Ray (requires CarbonLib 1.6 and later)
• Render progress dialog
• Improved message window to show statistics, errors and warnings
• New preferences format that will never again be lost in a new version, it will not destroy 3.1 preferences, too!
• New about box and startup screen
• New application and file icons
• Optional control of POV-Ray rendering via command-line arguments used on other platforms in Render Settings dialog
• Rendering runs in its own thread and no longer locks the user interface while rendering
• Built-in just-in-time compiler for "function" generating native PowerPC code more than doubling speed of isosurfaces in many cases
• More control over POV-Ray via AppleScript