Basics

Include Colours

You will need to save your POV-Ray file first for this to work. The file link is relative to the folder in which you saved your file: #include "include/colors.inc"

Add Camera

camera {
  location <0, 3, -3>
  look_at  <0, 0,  0>
}

Add Light Source

light_source { <0, 0, -3> White}

Add Sphere

set origin <x, y, z>, radius 1 unit and colour pigment salmon:

sphere {
    <0, 0, 0>, 1
      pigment { Salmon }
}

Finished Product

#include "colors.inc"

camera {
  location <0, 3, -3>
  look_at  <0, 0,  0>
}

sphere {
  <0, 0, 0>, 1
  pigment { Salmon }
}

light_source { <0, 0, -3> White}

Challenges

1. change colour of sphere
2. make sphere bigger
3. make sphere smaller
4. zoom camera out
5. zoom camera in
6. change camera rotation so that i can only see part of the sphere
7. add another sphere
8. make a cool looking solar eclipse picture