Here is a brief rundown on some of the more useful options in FTP v2.2

-le:\pov\libs	; include paths
-le:\pov\temp

-mv2.2		; POV language version (set to 1.0 or 1.4 for old POV files)
+v1		; verbose level
+x		; break-out enable
+ft		; use TARGA format output
+q9		; quality 0-9

+mb1		; enable volume space partitioning (bounding slabs)
+ulb		; enable light-buffer (has problems with some fancy lightsources)
+uvb		; enable vista-buffer

+ubq		; enable efficient bounding of quartic shapes
+usi		; split CSG unions only if finite (usf) / split all CSG's (usi) 
-um2		; CPU/FPU balance (depends on machine - use 'um2' on Falcon030 & 68882)

+a0.2		; antialising threshold (0.2 / 0.3 is good)
+r3		; rays per edge of ray-beam (3*3 = 9 element beam)
+j		; use jittering/noise distortion on beam for smoother output

+c		; continue with old aborted trace
+w340		; width
+h480		; height

N.B:

* NEVER use any of the new options with bounding turned off - it will die horribly.
* The light buffer speeds up scenes with multiple lightsources.
* The vista buffer speeds up scenes with multiple objects. :)

Have hours (or shouldn't that now be minutes?) of fun!

Doug @ BSS.