4.5.1 Preferences Dialog

This modeless dialog box is displayed when the user selects the "Edit: Preferences..." menu item.  You can set the amount of CPU-time POV-Ray uses for rendering via a popup menu, and set paths to search for include files that will be used for every scene file in addition the scene specific files.  Further you can specify how to be notified after POV-Ray has finished rendering, using a dialog and/or a beep sound.  The selections you make here are saved in the program's preferences file, so that these preferences are remembered between runs of POV-Ray.