POV-Ray for Windows 3.1 advanced newltpot scene
File type: Graphics file
A .c3 file is a scene description file associated with POV-Ray for Windows 3.1. It belongs to the advanced newltpot scene format used by that software.
The file contains data that POV-Ray uses to construct and render a scene.
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: October 25, 2026
POV-Ray is a ray-tracing program available for multiple platforms. Older versions used .c3 files for scenes containing objects, bodies, lights, shadows, textures, pigments, reflection, refraction, attenuation, halos, fog, dust, rainbows, and animation settings.
This format is associated specifically with POV-Ray for Windows 3.1 and its Moray plugin. It is an old, software-specific graphics source format rather than a general-purpose image format.
Open the .c3 file with POV-Ray for Windows 3.1 using the Moray plugin on Microsoft Windows. The file is a scene description, so the software can display or render the scene rather than treating it as a finished image.
Current versions of POV-Ray may not support this legacy format directly.
POV-Ray is able to export .c3 files to other formats. If the file opens in the compatible Windows version of POV-Ray, render the scene and save the result in one of the image formats supported by that installation.
Rendering converts the scene to an image; it does not preserve the editable scene description.
Software applications that can open c3 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit c3 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving c3 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create c3 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving c3 files:
Microsoft Windows
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