POV-Ray-Rendering Workbench

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



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.

To complete the installation the path to the POV-Ray executable has to be defined in the workbench preferences:



Tools
Almost every setting, except the settings of the light objects, is done in the dialog, so there are not many commands:


 * [[Image:POV-Ray-Rendering_OpenDialog.svg|32px]] OpenDialog: Open the Dialog where you can apply textures, add HDRI environments, etc. and start the rendering


 * [[Image:POV-Ray-Rendering_PointLight.svg|32px]] Point Light: Insert a Point Light


 * [[Image:POV-Ray-Rendering_AreaLight.svg|32px]] Area Light: Insert an Area Light


 * [[Image:POV-Ray-Rendering_SpotLight.svg|32px]] Spot Light: Insert a Spot Light

Links to POV-Ray Workbench

 * Workbench Wiki: https://gitlab.com/usbhub/exporttopovray/-/tree/master/doc
 * FreeCAD Forum: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=48629
 * Report bugs: Please report bugs at GitHub or FreeCAD Forum

Other useful links

 * External workbenches