ひさしぶりにPoseRayが2007.06.11に更新されています。
更新内容は以下になります。
Added basic support for Poser 5+ material nodes. See this section for the nodes supported.
Added specular mapping to the materials tab.
Bump strength is now scaled when it is imported from Poser 5+ files.
Texture-Color blending from Poser scenes is now scaled according to the color to avoid renders with washed out textures.
Added specular mapping support for LightWave materials.
Fixed some of the highlight probrems with DAZ|Studio scenes.
Fixed specular size calculation from LightWave materials.
Fixed batch export to POV
Fixed displacement in meshes with scaled UV mapping
Moved shadow flag to materials
Moved UV mapping to materials tab
Switched to POV-Ray specular and roughness model for hightlights.
Added a global declarations or macros area for the custom POV-Ray materials.
Updated the POV-Ray material finish with conserve_energy so that transparency and reflection work better.
Added some modifier presets to the POV-Ray materials tab.
Fixed extraction of material properties from Poser 7 PZZ files.
If a Poser material is transparent and reflective then its color is darken accordingly to match the Poser preview.
Added option to delete redundant highlight map entries that Poser creates by default.
Fixed vertex weld and normal recalculation not done when cleanup geometry option was used when importing a Poser scene.
Fixed UV coordinate corruption when using cleanup geometry option in the Poser import.
Fixed UV transformation tool not working.
Near clipping in the preview is dynamically calculated according to scene size and viewer position
Fixed using the wrong extension for exported OBJ files with resized and converted maps.
Fixed material presets from MTL files not setting the maps properly sometimes.
Added split_union off to the end of the POV-Ray geometry union to avoid union artifacts.
Rearranging materials and groups has now an effect on lines.
Lines are only exported if they are visible on the preview window.
Scene name is appended to the name of saved camera, material and light settings.
Added an option to show in the preview window the current light only. Useful whith dense light setups.
Added an option to change the interpolation of the image maps used.
Compressed Poser PZZ files can now be loaded from directories wtih names as long as 255 characters.
Configuration is not reset when a new version of PoseRay is installed unless its format has changed considerably.
Group list is now more responsive to flag changes.
Increased the size of the default area light for better shadows
Removed the revision number from render files and added an optional time stamp

結構いっぱいありますね。
ご興味あるかたは、どうぞ。

PoseRayV3.9.0 (Build 398)が 2006/7/13に久々にアップされました。
去年の12月以来の更新ですので、本当にひさびさです 。
前回のヴァージョンからMaterial指定のオプションが大幅に変更になって、少し操作で逡巡しますが、いろいろな改善がなされたもようです。
更新内容の詳細は以下のページをご参照のこと。
http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/

2005/11/07にPoseRay 3.8.18がアップされました。
http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/
今回の変更点は以下のものです。
Simplified the basic material interface. All the properties are shown in a single location.

Completely rewrote the POV-Ray texture editor. New settings, easier to use and more powerful.

The material blending approach was removed and replaced by simple transparency. If you want fancy POV-Ray texture blending you can still use the improved custom POV-Ray material tab.

Added transparency as a set of POV-Ray presets.

PoseRay can now copy the basic material properties into the POV-Ray tab text.

Some POV-Ray material presets had errors.

Missing POV-Ray texture text will default PoseRay to export the basic material

PoseRay now strips any formatting from text pasted into the POV-Ray text box.

Simplified HDRI simulation tab. Less numeric entries and better defaults.

HDRI simulation lights can be rotated as they are extracted from the HDRI probe.

Render image cannot be overwritten by PoseRay anymore. If the filename is already used then _RevX will be automatically added to the name where X is the revision number. The revision number auto increments.

Cartoon mode moved to the materials tab. This mode can now be applied to a single material if desired.

Zoom from DAZ|Studio camera files has been improved but it is still experimental.

Exported POV-Ray material files require less memory allocated when using transparency mapping.

Less video memory allocated while previewing Poser / DAZ|Studio scenes.

Background skies from HDRI tab are now saved as TGA files by default to avoid JPEG artifacts on the images.

Map conversion defaults to TGA format by default to avoid JPEG artifacts.

DAZ|Studio scene import does not automatically recalculate the normals by default.

Background sky can now be rotated around the y axis.

Saving material files now leave the names unchanged.

すでにお気づきの方もいらっしゃると思いますが･･･。
1点、操作上気がついたことを・・。
マティリアル設定に関することです。
通常、上方のMateraialsタブをクリックして、項目のタブPov-Ray Textureのタブをクリックして、ラジオボタンでマティリアルの質感などを指示するのですが、★Textures componetsを設定する場合に注意が必要ですtexture{pigment・・・の最後の締めでデフォルトでは”}”が
一つですが、これに手動でもう一つ”}”を加えないと、レンダリングではエラーが出ます。
そのほかでは、以前より機能は増しているようです。
下の画像は、試みにレンダリングしたものです。

05/8/28にPoseRayがV3.8.15にアップされました。
HDRI lightsが正しく配置されなかったのを修正したほか、マイナーフ
ィックスとのこと。
http://user.txcyber.com/%7Esgalls/index.htm

2005/8/18にPoseRay 3.8.14 がアップされました。
http://user.txcyber.com/%7Esgalls/index.htm
今回の更新はCRITICAL FIX RELEASE という見出しがついているように
重要ななバグの修正のようです。前のヴァージョンをお使いの方は更新のほど。
以下が今回の更新内容のリストです。

The window resizing routine was drawing and painting almost simultaneously with different parameters leading to random crashes using NVIDIA 77.72 drivers.

Fixed a bug where resizing the window was not updating the internal FOV value. This leaded to the zoom changing unexpectedly if the window was resized and another main tab was selected.

Polygon triangulation is now done by the OpenGL ® API tessellation functions if possible. This is a better triangulation with better aspect-ratios. It also subdivides better.

Preview reflection fixed

PoseRay checks the version of OpenGL and GLU at the start.

Lights sub-tab was redone to avoid some redrawing issues.

Part of the display list was being erased using the wrong index

All display lists are now checked to exist before being filled

Preview is using glfinish instead of glflush to force redraw

Fixed memory leaks left by not deallocating memory properly

Added OpenGL ® API errors to the warnings

Material settings can be saved from the material editor.

Poser and MTL material import has been consolidated into a single button for simplicity.

Fixed some missing material properties loaded from MTL files created by PoseRay

In the DAZ|Studio import dialog if the camera or lights entries are empty PoseRay will ignore them

Hourglass cursor is now present when saving POV files.

Group boxes were drawn with the wrongly scaled normals

Minimum resolution is now 1024x768. Too cramped with the old size.

PoseRay3.89が2005/06/16にアップされました。
今回の更新内容についてはこちらのVersion Historyをご参照ください。
http://user.txcyber.com/%7Esgalls/poserayhelp.htm#Version_History

PoseRayが2005/3/13に更新されておりました。
主な特徴は以下のようです（英語で失礼します）。
Rewrote the subdivision storage routines using a sparse matrix thus speeding up the process significantly
Subdivision does not weld the vertices automatically anymore.
Added POV-Ray mesh and mesh2 import from POV and INC files.
Dropped UDO import (export is still there) because of addition of POV-Ray import
Added very basic VRML 1 and 2 import.
Fixed material import of DAZ Studio bump size parameter (it changed with DS 0.9.18.6)
Added if a material has a map_refl entry in it PoseRay will make the material reflective
Fixed if two colors were blended by a map changing the color was not refreshing the preview sometimes.
Changed the input dialog to standard Windows components.
Fixed font size issues with some forms
Added back anti-aliasing of saved previews
Made outdoor scene a default in the HDRI simulation tab
PoseRay will ask for camera and light information from PZZ or PZ3 files only.
Open file dialogs will remember the file names if they correspond to the type being openend.

2005/1/23にPoseRay 3.8.5がアップされました。
詳細はみておりませんが、説明をみると、細かいバグつぶしかな、と。

まだ本体の方は、試していなかったのですが、いちいちTgaにしなくて
いい分だけ手間がいらなくなるのはありがたいです♪
MegaPovで直接やるには、構文を書き換えないといけない、ことを
考えるとこれも御徳ですね。