NOTE: This page is provided for archival purposes. The version of POV-Ray listed here
is not the most current. Please see our main download page
for the current version.
This page will provide you with links to the official POV-Ray version 3.6 binaries
and support files. All POV-Ray files are covered by one of our licences, as below:
Use of POV-Ray is governed by our end-user license
You must agree to this license before using any POV-Ray software or files. The installation
or use of POV-Ray indicates your agreement and it is thus not necessary to write us saying so.
Distribution and Modification of POV-Ray is governed by our distribution license
and source license. Please refer to those documents before
re-distributing or modifying any POV-Ray files.
What's New
Version 3.6 has many internal differences from 3.5, mostly to prepare for the move to v4.0.
From a users perspective, there are no major differences in the way the program is used. There
have been numerous changes made to improve stability and speed, however as a rule you should
expect most scenes to render identically as compared to v3.5.
All of the downloads on this page (plus many more, including releases going back to v1.0) are available at our FTP site, ftp.povray.org,
which is accessible using anonymous FTP with any standard FTP program.
Reviewers: if you will be using POV-Ray to benchmark CPU's, please read our
"benchmarking with POV-Ray" page for information that
you need to know.
Windows
The POV-Ray for Windows 32-bit version requires at least Windows 2000 and a Pentium processor. We recommend
30mb free disk space and at least 128mb of RAM.
The below 64-bit version requires Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (or later). It will not install on a 32-bit OS,
even if it is hosted on a 64-bit CPU. Just having an AMD64 is not sufficient - you must also have the above x64
edition of XP installed. If you don't know what version of POV-Ray for Windows you need, you want the above 32-bit
one.
Requires at least Mac OS 9.2 or at least Mac OS X 10.2.8. Using Mac OS
9.2.2 is strongly recommended. For Mac OS CarbonLib 1.6 is required.
Important: Some users with an Intel-Mac (any Mac sold in 2007 or later as well as some 2006 models) have reported problems running POV-Ray 3.6. These problems are due to Apple's PowerPC emulator crashing. The emulator is part of Mac OS X and out of POV-Ray's control. As of 2009, Apple has sent us a workaround (thanks!), but we have not found the time yet to integrate it into POV-Ray 3.6 because POV-Ray 3.6 depends on the now discontinued CodeWarrior compiler for Power Macs. Sorry! Please wait for POV-Ray 3.7.
Requires a glibc-2.2 based GNU/Linux system running on x86 hardware.
Please see this page for installation instructions.
There is also a handy list of Unix tools that can be used with POV-Ray.
Documentation is included with all versions of POV-Ray, so you do not
need to download any of the below files unless you want a printable
version or otherwise prefer a different format. We provide our printable
documentation in both international A4 and US letter sizes
(here's why),
in postscript, PDF, and TeX formats.
This source code is not needed to run the software on Windows, Mac OS
or Linux, but is useful for the programmers out there who want to take a
look at the source code, make modification or port it to a new platform.
Note: Distribution of modified versions of POV-Ray
is subject to our distribution license
as modified by the terms of our source license.
