This window allows you to view and edit the text descriptions of the scene you wish to render.
Status window
This window displays progress messages and general information about the rendering sessions.
Note that most POV-Ray dialogs will position themselves on the same monitor as this window.
Image window
This window displays the final rendered image, created from the text description in the Source window.
This is the POV-Ray startup splash screen. To dismiss this screen, click the mouse anywhere, press any key, or wait 8 seconds.
Currently, POV-Ray's Source editor cannot open files bigger than 32K bytes. Use another editor or word processor for this file (save it in Text Mode!)
Currently, POV-Ray's Source editor cannot open files bigger than 32K bytes. Use another editor or word processor for this file (save it in Text Mode!)
Click here to leave the Application's Default Settings unchanged, i.e., NOT update the default settings.
To save the currently opened file's Rendering Option Settings as the Application's Default Settings, click here.
All new documents will be created with these Rendering Options.
Select an image size here to automatically fill in the width/height/from/to fields with a preset size. Many common image sizes are listed here.
To tell POV-Ray to load the Targa file from the previous run and to continue where it left off last, click here. See the +C option.
This option is currently On.
To tell POV-Ray to load the Targa file from the previous run and to continue where it left off last, click here. See the +C option.
Not available because the “Create Targa…” checkbox is off.
To tell POV-Ray to load the Targa file from the previous run and to continue where it left off last, click here. See the +C option.
This option is currently Off.
To toggle the creation of a Targa-format output file during the render process, click here. This can allow you to stop POV-Ray partway through, and run it later to finish from where it left off. See the +FT option.
This option is currently On.
To toggle the creation of a Targa-format output file during the render process, click here. This can allow you to stop POV-Ray partway through, and run it later to finish from where it left off. See the +FT option.
This option is currently Off.
Click here to set the largest number of “#declared” items in your scene file. See the +MS option.
Click this to set up the kind of image compression to use on the final picture file.
To enable this, turn on the "Compress Image" checkbox.
Click this to set up the kind of image compression to use on the final picture file.
To use QuickTime Image compression on the Image when it is saved, click here. Use the “Settings” button to customize the compression settings. Currently On.
To use QuickTime Image compression on the Image when it is saved, click here. Use the “Settings” button to customize the compression settings. Currently Off.
Click here to set this to which version of POV-Ray syntax this file is written in (version 1.0 or 2.0.) See the +MV option.
Click this to set up the number of frames, clock value range, etc. for animation. See the +K option.
To enable this, turn on the "Animate" checkbox.
Click this to set up the number of frames, clock value range, etc. for animation. See the +K option.
Turn this on to have POV-Ray create multiple images from this scene file. See the +K option.
Currently On.
Turn this on to have POV-Ray create multiple images from this scene file. See the +K option.
Currently Off.
Choose the "minimum # of objects" threshold, and if there are at least that many objects, POV-Ray will optimize your scene by automatically "bounding" all the objects in your scene. Off means no auto-bounding. See the +MB option.
Click here to set to how much information is displayed in the status window as the render progresses. See the +V option.
Enter a number from 0.0 (no jitter) through 1.0 (lots of jitter.) The higher this number, the "wider" the anti-aliasing area, and the smoother it looks. See the +J option.
Anti-aliasing is currently off.
Enter a number from 0.0 (no jitter) through 1.0 (lots of jitter.) The higher this number, the "wider" the anti-aliasing area, and the smoother it looks. See the +J option.
Enter a number from 1 to 9 here to set the recursive depth of anti-aliasing. The number of rays is the square of this number, so a 3 would create 3*3 or 9 rays, etc. See the +R option.
Anti-aliasing is currently off.
Enter a number from 1 to 9 here to set the recursive depth of anti-aliasing. The number of rays is the square of this number, so a 3 would create 3*3 or 9 rays, etc. See the +R option.
Enter a number here (from 0.0 to 1.0) that determines the threshold of anti-aliasing. The closer to 0.0, the more anti-aliasing is done, the better the image looks, and the longer it takes to render. See the +A option.
