The Persistance of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) is a high-quality, yet entirely free raytracer. The POV-Ray raytracer has been used for over ten years to generate images of virtually anything imaginable. POV-Ray has even been used on the space shuttle!
Chief Architect uses POV-Ray to generate raytraced images. It communicates with and manages POV-Ray directly, so you do not need to understand POV-Ray to create high-quality, raytraced images from within Chief Architect.
Hobbyist raytracers or those interested in the highest possible visual quality may want to learn about POV-Ray to take advantage of the complete flexibility that it provides. For more information on POV-Ray, or to download the latest version, please visit the POV-Ray Web site at www.povray.org.
To use a Chief Architect scene in the POV-Ray raytracer, you can export your scene to POV-Ray format (.pov) file. You must be in a render view to export to POV-Ray format. From the render view go to File> Export 
, and choose POV-Ray (.POV) from the list of file types.
When exporting to a POV-Ray file, you have the option of including all the images that are used in the scene. This makes a copy of the necessary textures and images into the same directory as the destination for your POV-Ray export.
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