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: 3 POV-Ray for Windows
POV-Ray 3.6 Documentation Online View
2.8.13.2 Photons
3.1 Introduction
3
POV-Ray for Windows
Section Contents
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 What is POV-Ray for Windows?
3.1.2 ... And What Is It Not?
3.1.3 Who Can Use POV-Ray for Windows?
3.1.4 System Requirements
3.1.5 System Specific Features
3.1.5.1 SYS File Type
3.1.5.2 System Specific Charset
3.1.5.3 Time Units in CPU Histogram
3.1.6 Spelling
3.1.7 Reporting Bugs
3.1.8 Trademarks
3.2 Getting Started
3.2.1 The Demo
3.2.2 Starting a Render Job
3.2.3 Dragging and Dropping Files
3.2.4 Tutorials
3.2.5 Understanding File Types
3.2.5.1 POV Files
3.2.5.2 INI Files
3.2.5.2.1 INI File Sections
3.2.6 Using the Internal Editor
3.2.6.1 The Editor Feature Set
3.2.6.2 Turning the Internal Editor On or Off
3.2.6.3 Preventing File Restore
3.2.6.4 Switching between Editor windows
3.2.6.5 Keyword Expansion and CodeList
3.2.6.5.1 A Quick Example
3.2.6.5.2 How Keyword Expansion Works
3.2.6.5.3 CodeList
3.2.6.5.4 Using CodeList
3.2.6.5.5 Summary
3.2.6.6 Configuring the Internal Editor
3.2.6.6.1 Important Editor Notes
3.2.6.6.2 Default Key Mappings
3.2.6.6.3 Setting Key Mappings
3.2.6.6.4 Reserved Keys
3.2.6.6.5 Using the Mouse
3.2.6.6.6 European Users and Match Brace
3.2.6.6.7 Global vs. Local Options
3.2.6.7 The Language Setting
3.2.6.8 The Tab Spacing Setting
3.2.6.9 The Font Setting
3.2.7 I/O Restrictions
3.2.7.1 High-Level Configuration
3.2.7.2 Overall Options
3.2.7.3 No Restrictions
3.2.7.4 Restrict Write but Allow Read
3.2.7.5 Restrict Read/Write
3.2.7.6 Restrictions Affect all Core File I/O
3.2.7.7 Additional Options
3.2.7.8 Permit Read/Write in Current Directory
3.2.7.9 Disable Starting other Programs
3.2.7.10 Low-Level Configuration
3.2.7.11 Overall Concept
3.2.7.12 Adding or Changing Allowed Directories
3.2.7.13 For Those Who use an Image Output Directory
3.3 Command-Line Options
3.3.1 Special Command-Line Options
3.3.2 Adding New Resolutions
3.4 Windows
3.4.1 The Main Window
3.4.2 The Toolbar
3.4.2.1 Preset Rendering Options
3.4.2.2 Toolbar Command Line
3.4.3 The Status Bar
3.4.4 The Tab Control
3.4.5 The Message Window
3.4.6 The Editor Window
3.4.7 The Render Window
3.5 Menus
3.5.1 File Menu
3.5.1.1 New File
3.5.1.2 Open File
3.5.1.3 Close
3.5.1.4 Close All
3.5.1.5 Print
3.5.1.6 Exit
3.5.1.7 MRU List
3.5.1.8 Older Files
3.5.2 Edit Menu
3.5.2.1 Copy Pane
3.5.2.2 Clear Messages
3.5.2.3 Undo
3.5.2.4 Redo
3.5.2.5 Cut
3.5.2.6 Copy
3.5.2.7 Paste
3.5.2.8 Delete
3.5.2.9 Select All
3.5.2.10 Selection
3.5.2.10.1 Indent
3.5.2.10.2 Indent To Previous
3.5.2.10.3 Undent
3.5.2.10.4 Uppercase
3.5.2.10.5 Lowercase
3.5.2.10.6 Convert Spaces To Tabs
3.5.2.10.7 Convert Tabs To Spaces
3.5.3 Search Menu
3.5.3.1 Find
3.5.3.1.1 Match Whole Word Only
3.5.3.1.2 Match Case
3.5.3.1.3 Wildcard Search
3.5.3.2 Replace
3.5.3.3 Find Next
3.5.3.4 Match Brace
3.5.4 Text Menu
3.5.4.1 Show White Space
3.5.4.2 Set Repeat Count
3.5.4.3 Tab Size
3.5.4.4 Indent
3.5.4.4.1 Auto-Indent Style
3.5.4.4.2 None
3.5.4.4.3 Language Scope
3.5.4.4.4 Copy From Previous Line
3.5.4.5 Bookmarks
3.5.4.5.1 Clear All
3.5.4.5.2 First
3.5.4.5.3 Last
3.5.4.5.4 Next
3.5.4.5.5 Previous
3.5.4.5.6 Toggle
3.5.5 Editor Menu
3.5.5.1 Auto-Load Error File
3.5.5.2 Auto-Show Parse Messages
3.5.5.3 Auto-Save Delay
3.5.5.4 Create Backups
3.5.5.5 Allow Undo After Manual Save
3.5.5.6 Click Beyond EOL
3.5.5.7 Constrain Caret To Text
3.5.5.8 Overlay Keyword Expansion On Tab Key
3.5.5.9 Show Message Window
3.5.5.10 Editor Preferences Dialog
3.5.5.11 Record Macro/Play Macro
3.5.5.12 Auto-Reload
3.5.5.13 Scroll Bars
3.5.5.14 Color Scheme
3.5.5.15 Editor Preferences
3.5.5.15.1 Color/Font
3.5.5.15.2 Language/Tabs
3.5.5.15.3 Keyboard
3.5.5.15.4 Misc
3.5.6 Insert Menu
3.5.6.1 How the Insert Menu is Built
3.5.6.2 Physical Layout
3.5.6.3 Sorting the Insert Menu
3.5.6.4 Adding a Separator
3.5.6.5 Using the Insert Menu
3.5.7 Render Menu
3.5.7.1 Edit Settings/Render
3.5.7.2 Select File and Render
3.5.7.3 Start Rendering (Go!)/Stop Rendering
3.5.7.4 Run Demo
3.5.7.5 Run Benchmark
3.5.7.6 File Queue
3.5.7.7 Clear Queue
3.5.7.8 Animation Pane
3.5.7.8.1 Minimize Shellouts
3.5.7.8.2 No Shellout Wait
3.5.7.9 Render Priority
3.5.7.10 Duty Cycle
3.5.7.11 Sound Settings
3.5.7.12 On Completion
3.5.7.12.1 Do Nothing
3.5.7.12.2 Display Message
3.5.7.12.3 Exit POV-Ray for Windows
3.5.7.13 Rerun
3.5.7.13.1 Rerun Dialog
3.5.7.13.2 Rerun
3.5.7.13.3 Continue
3.5.7.13.4 File List
3.5.8 Options Menu
3.5.8.1 Keep Single Instance
3.5.8.2 Use Render Animation
3.5.8.3 Show Toolbar
3.5.8.4 Place in System Tray
3.5.8.5 Script I/O Restrictions
3.5.8.6 Drag'N'Drop Destination
3.5.8.7 Online Operations
3.5.8.8 Check For New Versions
3.5.8.9 Include System Information
3.5.8.10 Other Settings
3.5.8.10.1 Use Editor
3.5.8.10.2 Show Tips of the Day
3.5.8.10.3 Show Tooltips
3.5.8.10.4 Preserve Messages
3.5.8.10.5 Save Settings on Exit
3.5.8.10.6 Hide New User Help
3.5.8.10.7 Show Next Tip
3.5.8.10.8 Re-Render Insert Menu Bitmaps
3.5.8.10.9 Message Window
3.5.8.10.10 Select Plain Background
3.5.8.10.11 Text Font
3.5.8.10.12 Text Color
3.5.8.10.13 Background Color
3.5.8.10.14 Tiling Options
3.5.8.10.15 Render Window
3.5.8.10.16 Force 8 Bit Display
3.5.8.10.17 Preserve Contents During Animation
3.5.8.10.18 Re-display
3.5.8.10.19 Autoclose
3.5.8.10.20 Close
3.5.8.10.21 Keep Above Main
3.5.8.10.22 Get Focus on Creation
3.5.8.10.23 Hide When Main Minimized
3.5.8.10.24 Editor Window
3.5.9 Tools Menu
3.5.9.1 Syntax Coloring
3.5.9.2 Reload Tool Menu
3.5.9.3 Edit PVTOOLS.INI
3.5.9.4 Example PVTOOLS.INI
3.5.9.5 GUI Extensions Menu
3.5.10 Context Menus
3.5.10.1 The Message Window Context Menu
3.5.10.2 Minimize to System Tray
3.5.10.3 Show Tip
3.5.10.4 The Render Window Context Menu
3.5.10.5 The Editor Window Context Menu
3.5.10.6 Show or Hide Messages
3.5.10.7 Context Help
3.5.10.8 Open <Filename>
3.5.10.9 Copy "..." to Command-Line
3.6 Bug Reports
3.6.1 Things that look like bugs but aren't
3.6.2 Feature Requests are not bugs
3.6.3 "I don't like the way this works so it must be a bug"
3.6.4 Known Bugs
3.6.5 Bugs and GUI Extensions
3.6.6 Spelling
3.6.7 Bug Reporting via Email
3.6.8 Bug Reporting via our News Server
3.7 Speed Considerations
3.7.1 Render Priority
3.7.2 Render Window
3.7.3 Memory
3.7.4 Scene Features
3.7.5 Render Quality
2.8.13.2 Photons
3.1 Introduction