POV-Ray for Windows (also known as POVWIN) is POV-Ray, ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system. It contains all the features of POV-Ray itself, plus some others specific to Windows. The additional features do not affect the core rendering code (apart from the fact that they include .BMP file format support). All of the other additional features relate to making the program easier to use under Windows.

Starting POV-Ray rendering any scene file is as simple as selecting the file through the menu (Render/Select File and Render) or dragging and dropping it from Windows Explorer. This will work with either a POV file or an INI file (as long as it has an associated POV file). See Understanding File Types. The scene is rendered with the current POV-Ray 3 options. Note that you can tell POV-Ray for Windows to open a file in the editor instead of rendering it if you drag and drop it into the program (this is in fact the default setting now). See the Options Menu for more information.

Please also note that POV-Ray for Windows will write the output file to a .BMP by default. There is no way to 'save the render window' after rendering is completed.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this graphing software.