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>Soapbox on: You'll be doing yourself a great favor to learn to use POV without a >GUI first. There's still an awful lot that the graphical editors don't yet do and to >get the most mileage, you'll still need to do a fair amount of handwork. You'll also >simply learn to control your tool better. Soapbox off. I agree 99.99999% {floating point error 🙂 }. pondering mode = ON. max_recursive_calls = 2. I like to look at modelers for raytracers as object modelers not as scene generators. Usually a modeler will let you do both, but unless your paying more than $100 for it, it's going to be an object modeler ( a lot of features will be missing ). It's good to be able to visualize where the objects should be positioned (roughly speaking). Wireframe make things go faster at the expense of having to use a lot your imagination…anyways, writing a scene file in an editor is the ultimate creativity developer. Coming back to Dan Farmer's reply, it's good to bite the bullet and learn the syntax. It should save a lot of headaches later. pondering mode = OFF. There is 1 Reply. Read action !