2.1.6 How Do I Begin?
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POV-Ray 3.6 for UNIX documentation 2.1.6 How Do I Begin? |
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POV-Ray scenes are described in a special text language called a "scene description language". You will type commands into a plain text file and POV-Ray will read it to create the image. The process of running POV-Ray is a little different on each platform or operating system. You should read the platform-specific documentation as suggested earlier in this introduction. It will tell you how to command POV-Ray to turn your text scene description into an image. You should try rendering several sample images before attempting to create your own.
Once you know how to run POV-Ray on your computer and your operating system, you can proceed with the tutorial which follows. The tutorial explains how to describe the scene using the POV-Ray language.
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2.1.5 The Early History of POV-Ray | 2.1.6 How Do I Begin? | 2.1.7 Notation and Basic Assumptions |
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