HowTo:Contents
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Suggestions
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Completed Articles
Work-in-Progress Articles
Animating Your Creations
- HowTo:Create animations
- HowTo:Create more complex animations
- HowTo:Animation pitfalls
- HowTo:Encode animations as Ogg Theora Video (A non-proprietary video file format)
Objects
- HowTo:Use constructive solid geometry
- HowTo:Use the blob object
- HowTo:Use the isosurface object
- HowTo:Use the lathe object
- HowTo:Use the plane object
- HowTo:Use spline and bezier curves
Texturing
Lighting
Special Effects in POV-ray
- HowTo:Use fog and media
- HowTo:Use rainbow
- HowTo:Use photons
- HowTo:Use radiosity
- HowTo:Use sky_sphere and background
Special Output in POV-ray
- HowTo:Create anaglyph images
- HowTo:Create multi-phase web buttons
- HowTo:Create images for use as a heightfield
Working with POV-ray
Scene Description Language
Troubleshooting Your Scene
This section is for figuring out why your scene isn't rendering as expected. For problems related to installation or removal of POV-ray, updates, crashes, or other software-related issues, see General POV-ray Troubleshooting.
- Why is my image completely black?
- Why aren't all of my objects showing up?
- Why doesn't my fog or other media show up?
- What are all of these weird speckles on my object?
- What is the best way to fix holes in my isosurface?
General POV-ray Troubleshooting
This section is for software problems with POV-ray. If you are trying to figure out why your scene isn't rendering as expected, see Troubleshooting Your Scene.