Bishop3D

POV-Ray™ modeler and animation system

• Seamless POV-Ray 3.6 integration
• Keyframing animation
• POV-Ray SDL importer
• Built-in material and texture editor

Overview

Bishop3D is an interactive modeler and animation tool designed and built to work with POV-Ray™ Persistence of Vision Raytracer™ on MS-Windows platform, and it is currently undergoing fully public Beta tests.

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.

Additional Information

Supported platforms

Windows XP and Windows Vista.

License

Shareware.

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.