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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 5:43 am    Post subject: Getting started with povray -- WARNING LARGE IMAGES ! Reply with quote
Ok.... so, since i've spent an hour or so messing with this..... thought i'd share my findings......

I'm using mandriva 2025 FWIW.........

installing povray (as root ...)
Code:

urpmi povray-common
urpmi povray-official
urpmi povray-pvm


This installs povray.....
some samples are included HERE:
Code:

cd /usr/lib/povray31/scenes/advanced


To run the samples..... i had to be root .... as my user didn't have permission to execute in that directory.....however any povray scripts in my users home directory ran just fine as a normal user.

so...... as root.......
Code:

[root@localhost advanced]# x-povray -i chess2.pov

produces this in the terminal window.........
Code:

Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.1g.Linux.gcc
  This is an unofficial version compiled by:
  Mandrakesoft SA...........................
  The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version.
Copyright 1999 POV-Ray Team(tm)
Parsing Options
  Input file: chess2.pov (compatible to version 3.1)
  Remove bounds........On  Split unions........Off
  Library paths: /usr/lib/povray31 /usr/lib/povray31/include
Output Options
  Image resolution 320 by 240 (rows 1 to 240, columns 1 to 320).
  Output file: chess2.png, 24 bpp PNG
  Graphic display.....Off
  Mosaic preview......Off
  CPU usage histogram.Off
  Continued trace.....Off  Allow interruption...On  Pause when done.....Off
  Verbose messages....Off
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 25
  Light Buffer.........On  Vista Buffer.........On
  Antialiasing........Off
  Radiosity...........Off
Animation Options
  Clock value....   0.000  (Animation off)
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On


Parsing....................
High Quality focal blur used...
...chess2.pov:709: warning: CSG union unnecessarily bounded.

Focal blur is used. Standard antialiasing is switched off.

Creating bounding slabs.
Scene contains 9 frame level objects; 6 infinite.

Rendering...
Done Tracing
chess2.pov Statistics, Resolution 320 x 240
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pixels:           76800   Samples:          868376   Smpls/Pxl: 11.31
Rays:           1749183   Saved:             16978   Max Level: 5/5
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Box                            2912388          608501     20.89
Cone/Cylinder                  3345692          189013      5.65
CSG Intersection              40342802         5995653     14.86
CSG Union                     18470540         6102183     33.04
Plane                         94900750        55135859     58.10
Quadric                       19875884         6077217     30.58
Sphere                       107724618        10453206      9.70
Bounding Object               87899652         6001544      6.83
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calls to Noise:            5622411   Calls to DNoise:        5177830
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shadow Ray Tests:         10702044   Succeeded:               107253
Reflected Rays:             880807
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Smallest Alloc:                 10 bytes   Largest:             8200
Peak memory used:           699672 bytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   1.0 seconds (1 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours  1 minutes  49.0 seconds (109 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  1 minutes  50.0 seconds (110 seconds)
[root@localhost advanced]#                         

now when i do an ls of the directory..... chess2.png is there......

and it looks like this Smile --------------- >>>>>



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 6:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some of the demos i tried.........





I edited the woodbox.pov file........ and changed it just a bit........



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ntreal.png


quilt1.png


skyvase.png


ionic5.png



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Renderers like POV-Ray, Mental Ray, and Brazil R/S are absolutely wonderful, but the fundamental flaw that most people overlook with all rendering is textures. If you guys want to do some great looking renders, pickup a program like deep paint for UV mapping and the like, thats where the real meat is.



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember I had a blast playing around with Blender... Thinking of trying this
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
On SUSE Linux.......

in konqueror:
file:/usr/share/doc/packages/povray/html/
file:/usr/share/doc/packages/povray/html/

Povray stuff is here :
/usr/share/povray-3.6/



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
One of my suse installs.... it's in /usr/share/povray-3.5/
so, basically, it's in /usr/share somewhere Wink Laughing



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
[root@rob:/home/rob]$ urpmi povray-common
no package named povray-common
hmm....?



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2025 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
just try urpmi povray ...... see what packages it lists.....

I had added some rpm repositories in my list..... so that's probably where i grabbed em from Wink



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2025 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
how do you add more repositories ?



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2025 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
go there and follow the directions... Wink



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2025 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2025 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok i've done that and installed povray Very Happy



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2025 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think you'd be better off with Blender. Unforunately last time I used blender they didn't have a native global illumination engine, and you had to use radiosity to fake it. Man I wish they'd incorporate mental ray into their system....mmmmm mental ray. ^_^



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