1.3. Using the Plugin

GroIMP's POV-Ray plugin is used in two ways: At first, it defines an export to POV-Ray's file format. This is available via View/Export in the 3D view. You have to specify a file name for the output, the POV-Ray scene will then be written to this file. Some scenes contain additional image files, they will be written into a subdirectory called scene.pov-files (where scene.pov is the file name you have chosen).

Secondly, this export is used to obtain a POV-Ray-rendered image of the current scene directly in GroIMP's 3D view. Just use the menu Render View/POV-Ray in the 3D view.