5.3 Getting Started

This section will help new users get started with POV-Ray for Unix.

Section Contents

• 5.3.1 Available distributions
• 5.3.2 Configuration
  • 5.3.2.1 The I/O Restrictions configuration file
  • 5.3.2.2 The main POV-Ray INI file
• 5.3.3 Starting a Render Job
  • 5.3.3.1 X Window display
  • 5.3.3.2 SVGAlib display
  • 5.3.3.3 Output file formats
• 5.3.4 Interrupting POV-Ray
• 5.3.5 Tutorials
• 5.3.6 Rendering the Sample Scenes
• 5.3.7 POV-Ray for Unix Tips
  • 5.3.7.1 Automated execution
  • 5.3.7.2 Post-processing Images