Insert Menu Addon for POV-Ray version 3.6 / 3.7

Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray version 3.6 / 3.7)
last update: 25-Aug-2009

(Tested with POV-Ray for Windows v3.6.1 / v3.6.2 / v3.7.
Mac: Also reported working, except for the preview images, on Mac with MacMegaPOV [see here: http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html#Mac ] with the Aug 24 2005 version, only with the new universal binary or the PPC G4/G3 version for system 10.3.9 or later.
Linux: Also reported working with POV-Ray for Linux and the neXtgen Povray Editor (but without showing my preview thumbnails in bmp?) see here: neXtgen Povray Editor. [an older editor: QTPov-Editor [see here: http://qtpoveditor.sourceforge.net/ ].
(21-June-2009) )

Why this?

I have made this Insert Menu Add-on to Windows version of POV-Ray to make creating scenes easier for beginners and also more comfortable for advanced users.

How to use?

After having installed this Add-on all you have to do for building your own new scene is:
Step 0: Click on "New" button and you get a new white sheet for a scene text. Click on "Save" choose a good name (without anything than normal ASCII characters!) and save this empty text file like you save any normal text file but ending with ".pov" (The editor used with POV-Ray for Windows3.5. will do this automatically!).
Step 1: Click on "Insert Menu", "Basic templates", "Ready_made scenes" and choose one of the scenery backgrounds (Do this only one time in a scene!).
Step 2: You move your cursor at the end of the text! (Don't forget this - otherwise you ... will see not very much!) Click on "Insert Menu", "Basic templates" "Shapes with textures" and choose the shape you want to add in your scene.
Step 3: Click on "Run" button and you will see this scene rendered.
All shapes are completely textured and have vanilla transformations to make it easy to play around with them.

Where to get? How to install?

See here for more:
Download and how to install my Insert Menu Add-on
and my macro include file.

Insert Menu Add-on - Sections Overview
Click on the thumbnail images to see more!

Grass with small clouds in sky

Inside of a room

Coordinates 3D

Ready_made Scenes last update: 05-August-2005
Contains basic background scenes with a sun light_source and cameras and a ground and a sky.
Normally Camera_0 is standing at <0,1,-3> and looking at <0,1,0>.

sphere
with bumps

torus with texture

sor Surface of Revolution

Shapes 0 with Textures last update: 03-August-2005
Contains basic shapes with textures and vanilla transformations ready to play with and study them.

box symmetric
column

prism Z
roof 1

plane

Shapes 1 with Textures last update: 03-August-2005
Another collection of basic shapes.

Dodecahedron

Hyperboloid_Y

Shapes 2 - part 1 - with Textures
Contains basic shapes with textures and vanilla transformations like "Basic Shapes with Textures"
but here the objects mostly are defined in "shapes.inc" and "shapes2.inc" partly as macros.

Round_Cone2

superellipsoid - samples with texture

Supertorus - samples with texture

Shapes 2 - part 2 - with Textures New: 15-July-2007
Contains shapes with textures and vanilla transformations like "Shapes with Textures"
but here the objects are defined in "shapes.inc" partly as macros.

Lemniscate with texture

Quartic_Paraboloid with texture

Shapes from "shapesq.inc" with textures update: 06-March-2005
Contains shapes with textures, mostly defined by quartics,
which are defined as objects in the include file "shapesq.inc".

Parametric surfaces

Parametric Surfaces
New: 15-July-2007
This section contains some samples of shapes with parametrically defined surfaces.
Attention! These surfaces need very much time for calculation!

Segment_of_Object

Facetted_Sphere

Round_N_Pyramid truncated

3D Text Shapes with Textures update: 15-July-2007
Contains shapes with textures and vanilla transformations like "Shapes with Textures"
but here the objects which are defined as macros from my "shapes_lo.inc".

Bevelled_Text macro

Circle_Text_Valigned macro

Unicode text

3D Text Shapes update: 15-July-2007
Contains special 3D Text objects with textures and vanilla transformations.

height_field mountains

HF_Square

HF_Sphere

height_field + HF_macros update: 15-July-2007
Contains special height_field objects with textures and vanilla transformations.

Blob objects

Julia fractals

Special Shapes with Textures update: 15-July-2007
Contains special objects like blobs and fractals with textures and vanilla transformations.

Non-CSG disc

Non-CSG bicubic_patch

Non-CSG shapes New: 21-July-2004
Contains flat non-CSG objects with textures and vanilla transformations.
These objects cannot be used with CSG operations
because they don't have clearly a defined inside and outside!

Isosurfaces
by basic functions

Isosurfaces
by "functions.inc"

Isosurfaces
by pattern functions

Isosurfaces
with Textures update: 03-August-2005
Contains shapes of isosurfaces with textures and vanilla transformations - samples sorted in 3 groups.

Basic Colors

Colors in textures New: 03-August-2005
Contains textures with simple rgb colors.

misc., Skies + Clouds

Stones and Granites

Stones - stones.inc

Woods, wood.inc

Metals, Mirrors and Glasses

"normal" Samples

Textures and Materials Contains basic samples on textures and materials.
Samples for mirrors, glasses, stones, woods and metals.

Loops

sphere_sweep

Loops, sphere_sweep, Spline Curves last update: 07-May-2005
Contains basic samples on loops sphere_sweep, Spline.

random position

random size

Random New: 21-July-2004
Contains some basic sample objects for the use of random numbers.

Shearing

Reorient_Trans

Shearing and Transformations last update: 20-July-2006
Contains basic samples on shearing by matrix and transformations.

Animation 1

Animation 2

Animation Contains some basic animation sample files, ini files
with according scene files.

soft area_light

clouds + groundfog

rainbow arc

Lights, Skies, Fog, Rainbow last update: 03-August-2005
Contains some basic light_sources, some skies, fogs, rainbow.

2 d math functions

Math Functions Visualization of 2 d Functions with POV-Ray.
This section contains some sample scene files
for the demonstration of 2 d math functions in a coordinate planes.

vectors in 3d

planes in 3d

Analytical Geometry 3d Visualization of vectorial geometry with POV-Ray
This section contains some insert items for objects in Analytical Geometry like vectors,
straight lines, planes etc.. For this my include file "analytical_geo.inc" is needed!

Descriptions and Examples for the POV-Ray Raytracer by Friedrich A. Lohmüller