Official Persistence of Vision Raytracer Files
This document contains links to the Official POV-Ray Team distributions
for POV-Ray 3.02. Currently MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, SunOS and
Amiga are officially released as 3.02 versions.
Click on the link to be taken to the section for the platform of your choice -
To setup your gamma correction, please read gamma.gif.txt,
and download gamma.gif (14k).
To get the POV-Ray executable for MS-DOS -
download povmsdos.exe (3.0 MB).
run it in a temporary directory.
run the install.exe program produced.
follow the instructions.
To get POV-Ray source code in C for MS-DOS -
get the executable and install as shown above
get povmsd_s.zip (1.2 MB) and unzip -d in your \povray3 directory.
read compile.doc and other docs.
Note: Source isn't necessary just to run the program.
Click on this link to go to the Windows page.
Files for POV-Ray 3.02a on the Macintosh:
The Macintosh web site.
For a complete Linux distribution of POV-Ray 3.02 including
X-Windows and SVGAlib ELF binaries, doumentation, sample
scenes, and include files download povlinux.tgz (2.0 MB)
To compile your own version of POV-Ray 3.02 for Linux, you
should get the archive povuni_s.tgz (781 kB), which
includes the Linux-specific files. If you do not already have povlinux.tgz,
you also need to get povuni_d.tgz (1.3 MB) as well.
For a complete SunOS distribution for POV-Ray 3.02 including X Windows
and text-only binaries, documentation, sample scene, and include
files, download povsunos.tgz (2.2 MB). These
binaries are also known to run under Solaris.
If you are interested in compiling you own version of
POV-Ray for SunOS or Solaris, you should get the Unix
source archive povuni_s.tgz (781 kB),
which is used by all Unix versions. If you do not already have povsunos.tgz
you will need to get povuni_d.tgz (1.3 MB).
The Unix source archives.
In order to have a usable POV-Ray 3.02 system, you
MUST have the documentation, scene, and include files
in addition to an executable.
If you don't already have a version of POV 3.02 for
another platform, this means you have to download
both povuni_s.tgz (781 kB) and
povuni_d.tgz (1.3 MB) in order to
use POV 3.02 at all.
If you already have another version of POV 3.02
installed on your system, and you only want to compile
your own version, or you can copy the include files
and documentation from another computer, then you only
need to download povuni_s.tgz (7281 kB).