Course
Skills Expanded
POV-Ray Fundamentals
Ray tracing and modeling with POV-Ray.
What you'll learn
This course will arm you with all the skills you need to start ray-tracing and 3D modeling using the POV-Ray ray-tracer.
Table of contents
Introduction
25mins
The Basic Objects
31mins
Constructive Solid Geometry
18mins
Transforms
24mins
More Basic Shapes
14mins
Pigments and Patterns
20mins
Normals
20mins
Finishes
28mins
Language
62mins
Rendering
17mins
Animation
25mins
Complex Objects: Part 1
37mins
- Module Introduction 0m
- The Triangle 1m
- Our First Mesh 2m
- Making a Mesh Solid 4m
- Making a Mesh 6m
- Introducing the Isosurface 6m
- Creating Your Own Isosurface Function 4m
- Oh no! Artifacts! 3m
- More Artifacts! 3m
- Here's the Height_Field 4m
- Height_Field in CSG 1m
- Smoothing a Height_Field 2m
- Module Summary 1m
Complex Objects, Part 2
31mins
Atmospherics
19mins
Improving Your Scenes
20mins
About the author
Felbrigg has been producing his Cthulhu horror fiction podcast since 2008. He's also produced other podcasts based around his board game hobby. His other interests include writing, narrating audiobooks, ray tracing and designing card games, board games and roleplaying games. Oh, and he's a web developer with a focus on DotNet technologies.