POV-Ray Reviews & Product Details

For a 3D artist such as myself, it is very rewarding to find a software which renders as detailed and realistically as POV-Ray. This gives a lot of control over all the aspects of the scene and I was able to get very realistic renders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

POV-Ray involve user to write scenes in textual form which is a procedural language. This can be highly time wasting for starters and artists who are used to workflows that are more graphic in nature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

POV-Ray has a feature that makes it suitable for a 3D artist to give photorealistic quality renders as I am. It provides me a strong rendering engine and has several libraries of textures and material through which I can avail ready made ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Remediation and information building are somewhat labor intensive. Hence, the scene description language is programmed intensively to define aspects such as texture mapping, reflectiveness, or refractiveness of the materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Readily available to graduate students for making graphics for papers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not super high-end; more of a get-the-job-done tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Variety of options and tools available was decent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was complicated, somewhat unusable for someone inexperienced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

POV-Ray is TOTALLY free Visualization software which help me generate high-quality figures for different purposes. For example, it provides high-resolution picture for publication in academic. POV-Ray could also interact with various softwares, such as Avogadro, to make colorful 3D pictures of chemical structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The control panel of POV-Ray is not very friendly, and t is not easy for a new user to learn how to use it in a short time. Sometimes the software crash for no reason and I still cannot figure out where the problem is from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.