Bishop3D

Bishop3D is an interactive modeler and animation tool for the popular freeware raytracer POV-Ray™ (Persistence of Vision Raytracer™), a world-class renderer for creating three-dimensional photo-realistic images.

Introduction

Bishop3D has been designed and built to work with POV-Ray™ raytracer on MS-Windows platform and it is currently undergoing fully public Beta tests.
The project goal is to deliver a stable, reliable, powerful, extensible and easy to use tool to help POV artists and enthusiasts to produce still images and animation films.

The Renderer

POV-Ray™ is a freeware, stand-alone, world-class renderer that creates three-dimensional photo-realistic images taking as input a text file with the scene described in a script language known as POV-Ray Scene Description Language (SDL).

The Modeler

Bishop3D allows you to model the scenes interactively and it will automatically generate the correspondent POV-Ray SDL script. It offers native keyframe animation support, POV-Ray SDL import and a powerful texture editor.

The Modeler-Renderer integration

Bishop3D communicates with POV-Ray via POV-Ray's extension interface providing a seamless integration between the modeler and the renderer. You can start render jobs and see the results without ever leaving Bishop3D.

Beta tests

We are currently running fully public Bishop3D beta tests. If you want to try Bishop3D for yourself and eventually help the application development sending us comments, criticisms and error reports (and get yourself a free license in exchange), then please visit our downloads page.

Supported Platforms

It has been tested only on Windows XP but it should work also on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

License

Shareware.