KPovModeler is a modeling and composition program for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes in KDE.

For most of the modelers, POV-Ray is nothing but a rendering engine and they bring a lot of limitations to the innate possibilities of POV-Ray scripted language. This is not the case for KPovModeler which allows you to use all the features of POV-Ray through the translation of POV-Ray language into a graphical tree.

Almost all options of POV-Ray’s script language can be used within KPovModeler. “Almost” because variables, loop instructions, macros and some operators can’t directly be, unfortunately. On the other hand, KPovModeler allows you to include a part of a script with the “Raw POV-Ray” tool; such a raw code will only be taken into account by POV-Ray during the rendering stage.

Among the features you can find:

• Management of the scene through a graphical tree.
• Object modification with control points in a graphical view or direct manipulation of object attributes in a dialog.
• Nonblocking scene rendering with OpenGL as wire frame views.
• Freely configurable view layout with dock widgets.
• Copy/paste and drag/drop of (a subset of) povray(!) code into and out of the object tree.
• Undo and redo.
• Scene rendering and texture preview with povray inside the program.
• Support for almost all povray objects.
• Support for all textures.
• Prototypes (declarations) and references.
• All projection modes of the camera.

Link: http://www.kpovmodeler.org

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