LEGO® CAD and POV-Ray

Converting Virtual LEGO^® models
from LeoCAD to POV-Ray scenes.

Be sure to have properly installed
the LGEO POV Library
at C:\LDraw\Apps\LGEO\lg
Install Library Path for POV-Ray
Use POV-Ray Editor:
Tools -> Edit master POVRAY.INI
and add somewhere at the end of this file:
Library_Path="C:\LDraw\Apps\LGEO\lg"
Load your LEGO model in LeoGEO.
(file extensions: .lcd, .ldr, .mdl or .dat)
In LeoGEO: File Export -> POV-Ray
settings there in details:
(seek with in directories with botton "...")
4.1. LGEO POV Library Path
C:\LDraw\Apps\LGEO\lg\
4.2. POV-Ray Programm Path
For POV-Ray 3.7 normally:
C:\Users\Lo\AppData\Roaming\POV-Ray\v3.7\bin\pvengine-sse2.exe
For POV-Ray 3.6 normally:
C:\POV-Ray\bin\pvengine-sse2.exe
(Under Vista also POV-Ray 3.6 should not be installed in C:\Program Files because there are problems with animations).
4.3. Name + Path of POV-Ray scene file:
Here i.e.: "CastleTest1.pov"

POV-Ray export from LeoCAD.

Now click the OK botton and POV-Ray should start and render the scene file.
If you look in your POV-Ray scene file directory you will finde there two new files:
"CastleTest1.pov" and "CastleTest1.inc"

After running POV-Ray from LeoCAD
you nomally will get something bad
like the image at the right:
But don't worry - how to hype up such scene files is the topic of the next chapters of this tutorial.

Converting Virtual LEGO® models from LeoCAD to POV-Ray scenes.

POV-Ray export from LeoCAD.

First trial - needs some lifting!

Converting Virtual LEGO^® models
from LeoCAD to POV-Ray scenes.