Chapter 1. GroIMP's POV-Ray Plugin

Table of Contents

1.1. Installation of POV-Ray
1.2. Configuration
1.3. Using the Plugin
1.4. Limitations

POV-Ray is a free ray-tracer. The POV-Ray plugin defines an export of a 3D scene to POV-Ray's file format, this can be used to obtain high-quality images of scenes modelled with GroIMP.

1.1. Installation of POV-Ray

POV-Ray is available for download at www.povray.org. For GroIMP's POV-Ray plugin, you need POV-Ray version 3.5 or higher. Please follow the instructions given at POV-Ray's web page in order to install POV-Ray properly.

Note

Most Linux distributions contain POV-Ray. Just select it in the setup tool of your distribution, POV-Ray will then be installed automatically.