TrueVision

Truevision is a modeler for POV-Ray.

Truevision features a very common GUI with the 4 standard views. On the right side are sub-sections allowing the user to access object creation, object edition, tree view of the scene and list of textures.

Among the features is a texture editor very easy to use, and a preview of the texture with POV-Ray. Put the simplest way, Truevision is very easy to use but it lacks many of the objects available with POV-Ray.

Current features :

Management of the objects in layers. Each layer is made like a tree object. Each layer and each object can be selected in order to render it with POV-Ray or display it within Truevision.
Management of CSG (Union, merge, intersection and difference)
Finite object solids: box, sphere, cone, cylinder, heightfield, torus and superquadratic ellipsoid.
Infinite solid objects : plane.
Finite non solid objects : disc.
Light objects : point, spot, area and cylinder.
Atmospheric objects : background, fog, sky sphere and atmospheric media (not compatible with POV-Ray 3.5).
The different camera types for POV-Ray are not supported.
Display of 4 views (including camera view) with OpenGL preview.
POV-Ray rendering GUI and export of the scene in POV-Ray's native format.
Material editor.
Library manager of textures.

Truevision is a software in development stage. The tried version is from early 2002 and we had to wait almost 2 years before the 0.4.0 version of october 2003. This new version is mainly about the port of Truevision under GTK+ v2 and gtkglext. It brings no bug correction and no new feature compared to the previous version.

Useful information

Author : Vincent LE PRINCE (vincentleprince_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Homepage : truevision.sourceforge.net
Tried version : 0.4.0 (octobre 2003).
License : GPL.
Localization : French, English.
Dependencies : GTK+ 2, gtkglext.
POV-Ray versions supported : 3.1

Main window with the tree object.

Main window showing object parameters.

Texture editor.

Texture library.