POV-Ray-Rendering Workbench

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Introduction

The POV-Ray-Rendering Workbench is an external workbench built to create renderings easily but also offers options for advanced users.

Features

Applying textures

There are more than 100 predefined textures you can apply, but you can also define your own materials.

Thumbnails and live preview

You can check the appearance of the material/texture with the pre-rendered thumbnails of the textures. To see the impact of the selected texture options, you can use the live preview to render the chosen texture.

Lighting

With the three light types: area light, point light and spot light, and their different options, you can create advanced lighting.

Indirect lighting (GI)

The workbench has the option to enable indirect lighting to create more realistic images.

HDRI environments

With support for HDRI environments, beautiful environments are simple to use.

User inc file

The user has the option to use an extra file what offers the option to use all options of the renderer. For more details, checkout our wiki: Power User

Usage

It's a lot easier to watch this simple demo of the workbench instead of describing it:

There are many more options on the other tabs, please explore them yourself, or you can visit our wiki: Workbench Wiki

Installation

This workbench can be installed and updated from the Addon Manager. The POV-Ray renderer used by the workbench has to be installed separately. See Install POV.