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The KPovModeler Handbook

Lauri Watts

Andreas Zehender

Olivier Saraja

Revision 1.1.3 (2010-08-08)

KPovModeler is a graphical 3D modeler, which can generate scenes for POV-Ray

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The KPovModeler Interface
The Object Tree
Selecting Objects
Adding new Objects
Removing Objects
Moving Objects
The Properties View
The Wireframe Views
The Orthographic Views
The Camera View
Visibility Levels
View Layouts
Modifying the View Layout
Saving a View Layout
Switching between View Layouts
3. POV-Ray Interaction
Rendering the Scene
Render Modes
The Render Window
Exporting and Importing
Exporting and Importing a Whole Scene
Exporting and Importing single Objects
4. Configuring KPovModeler
The Povray Page
Povray Command
Povray User Documentation
Library Paths
The Colors page
The Grid Page
Displayed Grid
Control Point Grid
The Objects Page
Subdivisions
Sizes
Camera Views
The Texture Preview Page
The View Layout Page
The default View Layout
List of View Layouts
View Layout Details
5. Basic Tutorial: Creating your first Scene
Step 1: Start KPovModeler
Step 2: Setting the Camera
Step 3: Setting a Light
Step 4: Creating the Ground
Step 5: Setting a Material for the Ground
Step 6: Creating the Sphere
Step 7: Setting a Material for the Sphere
Conclusion
6. Basic Concepts
What is Raytracing?
7. Objects Reference
8. Menu Reference
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Insert Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
9. Credits and License
Glossary
A. Installation