Documentation:Mac OS Table of Contents

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Main Table of Contents

POV-Ray Tutorial

Introduction

• What's new in POV-Ray for Mac OS
• Installation
• Requirements
• Bug Reporting via our Bug Tracking System

Menus

• Apple Menu
• File Menu
• Edit Menu
• Search Menu
• Templates Menu
• Render Menu
• Window Menu
• Help Menu

Windows

• Message Window
• Text Editor Window
• Render Preview Window
• Templates Window

Dialogs

• Preferences Dialog

• General Pane

• Fast Preview Mode
• Fast Functions
• Background Rendering
• Use Temporary Memory
• Render Engine

• Editor Pane

• Font
• Size
• Tab Size
• Auto Indent
• Syntax Coloring
• Symbol Coloring

• Actions Pane

• Startup Actions
• Startup and termination script actions
• Actions after all jobs finished

• Files Pane

• Allow rendering of .pov files only
• Application creator codes for output files

• Scenes Pane

• Global Include Paths
• Default Render Settings Set

• Render Settings Dialog

• Scene Pane

• Command-Line
• Language
• Show Preview
• Mosaic Preview
• File Specific Include Paths

• Quality Pane

• Render Quality
• Anti-Aliasing

• Optimization Pane

• Auto-Bounding
• Ignore any bounded_by in scene
• Split Unions
• Use Light Buffer
• Use Vista Buffer
• Draw Vista Buffers

• Output Pane

• Image Size
• Partial Image
• Save Image As
• Bits per color
• Add Alpha-Channel
• Compression
• Set Compression
• Save Histogram As

• Animation Pane

• Frame Number
• Clock Value
• Field Rendering

• Actions Pane

Tips and Tricks

• To speed up rendering as much as possible on the Mac
• How to use TrueType fonts in the "text" object
• Known Problems

POV-Ray Reference

POV-Ray Tutorial

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