Documentation:Mac OS Section 3

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Menus

Apple Menu

This is the usual Apple menu found in every application. Among the usual Apple menu items it contains the "About POV-Ray for Mac OS..." items which will display the POV-Ray Mac about box.

Hint: In the about box there is a hidden Easter Egg. Type the tree-letter acronym for the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer to uncover it. For control of the Easter Egg you may use the mouse to move around, the "+"and "-" keys increase and decrease the resolution, "r" key increase the recursion level, the "t" key to reset the recursion level to one, the "a" key to increase antialiasing quality and the "n" key to disable the antialiasing again. With the "c" and "l" key you may switch between moving the light or moving the camera around. Press any mouse button, press the "q" key or the space bar to leave the Easter Egg (this may take a few seconds). Note that the Easter Egg makes use of multiple processors if available.

File Menu

The File menu provides all the usual functions for opening, saving and printing files.

Edit Menu

The File menu provides all the usual functions for copy and paste, undo and redo. It also provides access to the Render Settings dialog and the Preferences dialog.

Search Menu

The search menu provides advanced searching and replacing options. Seaching based on Regular Expressions is available. The Regular Expressions work similar to those in the lanuguae Perl.

Templates Menu

The Template menu allows you to Import templates from previous Mac OS versions as well as of the WIndows version of POV-Ray. It also lists all templates for easy insertion into your scene.

Render Menu

The Render menu provides Start, Stop and Pause commands. Note that in order to start rendering of a scene file its window has to be in front.

This menu also offers commands to render the official POV-Ray benchmark scene. This scene is rendered without preview window and not stored on disk as it is only ment to determine the raw rendering speed, not the speed of your graphics card or harddisk. Thus, all you get are a few statistics at the end of rendering. Expect the benchmark to take over two hours to render on a slow G4.

Window Menu

The Window menu provides all the usual functions.

Help Menu

The Help menu gives you access to the POV-Ray Help, which contains the whole documentation of POV-Ray.

Getting Started

Windows