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POV-Ray Tutorial

Command-line Options

• Animation Options

• External Animation Loop
• Internal Animation Loop
• Subsets of Animation Frames
• Subsets of Animation Frames
• Field Renderings

• General Output Options

• Height and Width of Output
• Max Image Buffer Memory
• Partial Output Options
• Interrupting Options
• Resuming Options

• Display Output Options

• Display Hardware Settings
• Setting your Display Gamma
• Display Related Settings
• Mosaic Preview

• File Output Options

• Output File Type
• Output File Name
• Output File Buffer
• Output File Dithering
• Output File Gamma
• CPU Utilization Histogram

• Scene Parsing Options

• Constant
• Input File Name
• Include File Name
• Library Paths
• Language Version

• Shell-out to Operating System

• String Substitution in Shell Commands
• Shell Command Sequencing
• Shell Command Return Actions

• Text Output

• Text Streams
• Console Text Output
• Directing Text Streams to Files
• Warning Levels
• Help Screen Switches

• Tracing Options

• Symmetric MultiProcessing
• Render Block Size

• Render Pattern
• Render Block Step

• Quality Settings
• Automatic Bounding Control
• Removing User Bounding
• BSP Bounding
• Anti-Aliasing Options
• Radiosity Options

• Radiosity High Reproducibility
• Radiosity Load and Save
• Radiosity Vain Pretrace

Scene Description Language

• Language Basics

• Keywords
• Identifiers
• Comments
• Numeric Expressions

• Literals
• Identifiers
• Operators
• Functions
• Built-in Constants
• Built-in Variables

• Vector Expressions

• Literals
• Identifiers
• Operators
• Operator Promotion
• Functions
• Built-in Constants

• Color Expressions

• Color Vectors
• sRGB Colors
• Color Keywords
• Color Identifiers
• Color Operators
• Common Color Pitfalls

• User-Defined Functions

• Sum and Product functions
• Functions and Macros
• Declaring User-Defined Float Functions
• Declaring User-Defined Vector Functions
• Declaring User-Defined Color Functionss
• Internal Pre-Defined Functions

• Strings

• Literals
• Identifiers
• Relational Operators
• Functions
• Built-in Variables

• Arrays

• Declaring Arrays
• Array Initializers

• Splines

• Splines and Macros

• Language Directives

• Include Directive
• Declare and Local Directives

• Declaring identifiers
• declare vs. local
• Identifier Name Collisions
• Destroying Identifiers with undef
• Deprecation Support

• File I/O Directives

• The fopen Directive
• The fclose Directive
• The read Directive
• The write Directive

• Default Directive
• Version Directive
• Conditional Directives

• The if...else...end Directives
• The ifdef and ifndef Directives
• The for Directive
• The switch, case, range and break Directives
• The while...end Directive

• User Message Directives

• Text Message Streams
• Text Formatting

• User Defined Macros

• The macro Directive
• Invoking Macros
• Are POV-Ray Macros a Function or a Macro?
• Returning a Value Like a Function
• Returning Values Via Parameters

Scene

• Global Settings

• ADC_Bailout
• Ambient_Light
• Assumed_Gamma
• HF_Gray_16
• Irid_Wavelength
• Charset
• Max_Trace_Level
• Mm_Per_Unit
• Number_Of_Waves
• Noise_generator
• Subsurface

• Camera

• Placing the Camera

• Location and Look_At
• The Sky Vector
• Angles
• The Direction Vector
• Up and Right Vectors
• Aspect Ratio
• Handedness
• Transforming the Camera

• Types of Projection

• Perspective projection
• Orthographic projection
• Mesh projection

• Rays Per Pixel
• Distribution Type
• Max Distance
• Mesh Object
• About the Location Vector
• About the Direction Vector
• The Smooth Modifier

• Fisheye projection
• Ultra wide angle projection
• Omnimax projection
• Panoramic projection
• Cylindrical projection
• Spherical projection

• Focal Blur
• Camera Ray Perturbation
• Camera Identifiers

• Atmospheric Effects

• Atmospheric Media
• Background
• Fog
• Sky Sphere
• Rainbow

Lighting

• Light Sources

• Point Lights
• Spotlights
• Cylindrical Lights
• Parallel Lights
• Area Lights
• Shadowless Lights
• Looks_like
• Projected_Through
• Light Fading
• Atmospheric Media Interaction
• Atmospheric Attenuation

• Light Groups
• Radiosity

• Radiosity Basics
• How Radiosity Works
• Adjusting Radiosity

• adc_bailout
• always_sample
• brightness
• count
• error_bound
• gray_threshold
• low_error_factor
• max_sample
• maximum_reuse
• minimum_reuse
• nearest_count
• pretrace_start and pretrace_end
• recursion_limit

• Configuring Radiosity

• Importance
• Media and Radiosity
• No Radiosity
• Normal and Radiosity
• Save and Load Radiosity Data
• Subsurface and Radiosity

• Tips on Radiosity

• Photons

• Examples
• Using Photon Mapping in Your Scene
• Photon Global Settings
• Shooting Photons at an Object
• Photons and Light Sources
• Photons and Media
• Photons FAQ
• Photon Tips
• Advanced Techniques

• Autostop
• Adaptive Search Radius
• Photons and Dispersion
• Saving and Loading Photon Maps

Objects

• Finite Solid Primitives

• Blob
• Box
• Cone
• Cylinder
• Height Field
• Isosurface
• Julia Fractal
• Lathe
• Ovus
• Parametric
• Prism
• Sphere
• Sphere Sweep
• Superquadric Ellipsoid
• Surface of Revolution
• Text
• Torus

• Finite Patch Primitives

• Bicubic Patch
• Disc
• Mesh
• Mesh2
• Polygon
• Triangle
• Smooth Triangle

• Infinite Solid Primitives

• Plane
• Poly
• Cubic
• Quartic
• Polynomial
• Quadric

• Constructive Solid Geometry

• Inside and Outside
• Union
• Intersection
• Difference
• Merge

• Object Modifiers

Textures

• Pigment

• Solid Color Pigments
• Color List Pigments
• Quick Color

• Normal

• Scaling normals

• Finish

• Ambient
• Emission
• Diffuse Reflection Items

• Diffuse
• Brilliance
• Crand Graininess
• Subsurface Light Transport

• Highlights

• Phong Highlights
• Specular Highlight
• Metallic Highlight Modifier

• Specular Reflection
• Conserve Energy for Reflection
• Iridescence

• Halo
• Patterned Textures

• Texture Maps
• Tiles
• Material Maps

• Specifying a Material Map

• Layered Textures
• UV Mapping

• Supported Objects
• UV Vectors

• Triangle Texture Interpolation
• Interior Texture
• Cutaway Textures

Media

• Media Types

• Absorption
• Emission
• Scattering

• Sampling Parameters & Methods
• Density

• General Density Modifiers
• Density with color_map
• Density Maps and Density Lists
• Multiple Density vs. Multiple Media

Patterns

• General Patterns

• Agate
• Boxed
• Bozo
• Brick
• Bumps
• Cubic
• Cylindrical
• Density_File
• Dents
• Facets
• Fractal Patterns
• Function as pattern
• Gradient
• Granite
• Hexagon
• Leopard
• Marble
• Onion
• Pavement
• Pigment Pattern
• Planar
• Quilted
• Radial
• Ripples
• Spherical
• Spiral1
• Spiral2
• Spotted
• Square
• Tiling
• Waves
• Wood
• Wrinkles

• Discontinuous Patterns

• Cells
• Checker
• Crackle Patterns
• Object Pattern
• Triangular

• Normal-Dependent Patterns

• Aoi
• Slope

• Special Patterns

• Average
• Image Pattern

• Pattern Modifiers

Include Files

• Main Files

• arrays.inc
• chars.inc
• colors.inc
• consts.inc
• debug.inc
• finish.inc
• functions.inc
• glass.inc, glass_old.inc
• math.inc
• metals.inc
• golds.inc
• rand.inc
• shapes.inc
• shapes2.inc
• shapesq.inc
• skies.inc
• stars.inc
• stones.inc
• stdinc.inc
• strings.inc
• textures.inc
• transforms.inc
• woodmaps.inc
• woods.inc
• logo.inc
• rad_def.inc
• screen.inc
• sunpos.inc

• Old Files

• glass_old.inc
• shapes_old.inc
• stage1.inc
• stdcam.inc
• stones1.inc
• stones2.inc

• Other Files

• font files (*.ttf)
• color_map files (*.map)
• image files (*.png, *.pot, *.df3)

Main Table of Contents

POV-Ray Tutorial

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