POV-Ray Exporter

[Xlance]

POV-Ray renderer Exporter v1.1

This plugin translates your complete 3D home plans—including multi-level geometry, complex furniture meshes, custom textures, and lighting—directly into POV-Ray renderer scene files (.pov).

Key Features:

Advanced Radiosity Profiles: Choose from 9 carefully calibrated lighting presets (from rapid draft to studio-quality final renders) without writing a line of code.

True Geometry Translation: Retains precise 3D meshes (Java3D) for furniture, mitered wall corners, and exact room footprints.

Intelligent Terrain: Automatically generates raised podiums and excavated ground cutouts for underground levels and ramps.

Fault-Tolerant Exporting: A single broken 3D model won't ruin your export. The plugin safely bypasses corrupt furniture meshes, logs the error, and completes the scene.

Dynamic Sky & Sun Mapping: Converts your chosen geographic location, time of day, and equirectangular sky textures into accurate parallel lighting and sky spheres.

https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/plug-ins/70/

[Keet]

A little more explanation would be nice for non-advanced users.

You need a separate program to generate the images (POV-Ray ) which is several years old (2013) and only Windows. There are older versions for Unix/Linux but these are not just 'older' but ancient (2004).
That said, they should work and create amazing renderings, plus the source code is available.
I couldn't find more recent software that renders .pov files but it seems that there is "POV-Ray 3.7 integration for Blender".

See also: https://filext.com/file-extension/POV

[Xlance]

Latest povray version is 3.8 beta 2

https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/releases/


Blender does have full support for .pov files

[:)]

[Keet]

Good that there's continued development, I missed that version.
(Although not every Linux user is able to build from source code.)
The render examples I have seen are really good so another way to create high quality renders.

[Xlance]

POVRAY can render .HDR and .EXR high dynamic range 96 bit images [:)]