Kate is an editor for KDE environment. Even though I'm using Ubuntu, which is GNOME environment, Kate is the best editor I tried for these days. Kate has syntax highlight command auto complete window splitting embedded terminal embedded te…

SciTE seems to be a good choice. Setup the SciTE by following the manual: install SciTE using Synaptic Package Manager, apt-get, or compile from source. change Global settings Edit /usr/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties ( can edit on SciT…

#include loads .inc files that describe any data used in .pov files as: #include "file.inc" #declare and #local declares identifiers. Identifiers include vector, object, *_map, etc. For scalar, vector, and color, don't forget put ; at the …

XPE (neXtgen Pov-ray Editor) is an editor for POV-Ray based on wxWidgets library. Here's the quick commands list for XPE installation. sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8 tar -zxf xpe_project_v0_9_5b.tar.gz cd xpe_project/ ./c…

PovClipse is an eclipse plug-in for POV-Ray and MegaPOV. Since the original tutorial assumes Windows, I briefly write how to setup on Ubuntu. Edit povray.conf If rendering fails, you should add the following command in ~/.povray/3.6/povray…

Contrast to POV-Ray on Windows, POV-Ray on Linux does not contain GUI*. Just for editing, any editor is fine, however, we'd also like render images while editing. In such sense, we prefer editor with rendering function. There exist several…

For rendering lens distorted images, I installed POV-Ray 3.6.1 and then apply the patch provided by Clemens Rabe. building environment sudo apt-get install build-essentials supporting libraries The following supporting libraries are needed…

I mentioned rendering images with lens distortion effect. It could be possible Clemens Rabe's patch. However, I'm giving up it because I couldn't compile povray under windows... One solution is install linux on virtual PC and apply the pat…

I'm considering making a multiple cameras calibration dataset with CG modeler/renderer. Functions I want are easy to add/remove cameras, easy to check rendering result, good lens distortion effect. First candidate is Blender. Blender satis…