POV-Ray-Rendering Workbench

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Introduction

The POV-Ray-Rendering Workbench is an external workbench built to make rendering easy but it also offers options for advanced users. The workbench uses the POV-Ray renderer.

Features

Applying textures

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

Thumbnails and live preview

To see the impact of the selected texture options you can check the pre-rendered thumbnail or use the live preview to render the 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

Power users who want access to all options of the POV-Ray renderer can do so by creating a special file. For more details see the Power User page on our Wiki.

Usage

Here is a simple demonstration of the workbench:

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. For Windows users, the installer can be downloaded from the POV-Ray Download Page, for Linux users it can usually be installed from the package manager. Look up the detailed instructions in the POV-Ray Wiki if you're on a Mac.

To complete the installation the path to the POV-Ray executable has to be defined in the workbench preferences, usually these are the default paths:

Windows: C:/Program Files/POV-Ray/v3.7/bin/pvengine64.exe (the v*.* folder may change depending on the POV-Ray version)
Linux: /usr/bin/povray
MacOS: Not available. If you have more information, please let us know.