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Subject Areas
Animating your creations
- How to: Create animations
- How to: Create more complex animations
- How to: Animation pitfalls
- How to: Encode animations as Ogg Theora Video (A non-proprietary video file format)
Lighting
- How to: Make soft shadows using the area_light
- How to: Simulate real-world ambient light
- How to: Simulate real-world optical effects
- How to: Make realistic outdoor lighting
- How to: Make realistic indoor lighting
Modeling
Objects
- How to: Use constructive solid geometry
- How to: Use the blob object
- How to: Use the isosurface object
- How to: Use the lathe object
- How to: Use the plane object
- How to: Use spline and bezier curves
Scene Description Language
- How to: Manage your variables
- How to: Use conditional structures
- How to: Use macros and loops
- How to: Use for loop over traditional while loop
Scenes in POV-Ray
- How to: Build a basic scene
- How to: Plan your scenes
- How to use PovClipse2 : An Eclipse plugin to manage POV-Ray source
- Place objects on another object
Special effects in POV-Ray
- How to: Use fog and media
- How to: Use photons
- How to: Use radiosity
- How to: Use sky_sphere and background
- How to: Render LDraw scenes for polarized glasses (off site, needs to be re-written in more general terms that are not LDraw-specific)
- How to create focal blur manually
Special input in POV-Ray
Special output in POV-Ray
- How to: Create anaglyph images
- How to: Create high precision heightfields using POV-Ray
- How to: Create images for use as a heightfield
- How to: Create multi-phase web buttons
- How to: Create omnidirectional stereo (ODS) images
- How to: Output 2D screen coordinates
Texturing
- How to: Use UV-mapping
- How to: Use an image as a texture
- How to: Turn a continuous function into a stepped function
Working with POV-Ray
Tips to get the most out of POV-ray:
- How to: Fix old scenes to work with the new gamma system
- How to: Install multiple versions of POV-Ray
- How to: Configure your favorite text editor to work with POV-Ray
POV-Ray for Microsoft Windows
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.
- Installation Troubleshooting currently via newsgroups.
- Known Issues and Possible Work-arounds
- How to make a Bug Report
- How to make a feature request
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 POV-Ray troubleshooting.