i use and love lightwave 6.0. very good program. what i'm really
interested in is how well a renderer (or front end) deals with moving points
around. i know 3dStudio has a lot of problems with it. most of my 3D
models are built from basic primitives. i simply move the points around to
get the desired shapes. one thing i hate about 3D studio is the whole
"carving" method of creating objects. much easier and faster to simply drag
a bunch of points. i am definitely going to try out Blender and see if it
meets my needs.
also, i certainly wouldn't put down POV. i've seen some finished
work from it and it's impressive. i just don't like the whole idea of
writing a "script" to create my objects. maybe there's a good front-end out
there to fit the bill...
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> > Justin Bengtson wrote:
> > > i've seen POV before and i wasn't too impressed. of course, that was
> > > several years ago. has it matured beyond the "script" redering i've
> seen?
> > There are several modeling programs that will generate POVray scripts.
> > But those modeling programs all run on Winders.
>
> I first used POV back in 93 or 94, under OS/2 v2 beta;
> rendering out the more complex examples at ~megapixel
> took hours, but _only_ hours on my 486. Well, that
> was cool... shortly after, PoV released a whole 'new'
> version (3?) and I've run it nuder linux but haven't
> toyed much. It's one of those things that I think is
> great to have around -- I'd like to one day have my
> server using gimp, PoV, and various other process-
> intensive media-manipulation tools in some useful
> way... I'm not making content these days tho, and
> have since used the OpenGL-based Java3D environment,
> but for much different purposes. I guess raw GL
> would be the way to go (as a ~coder)... Anyone
> thought of re-rendering GL to flash, now that there
> are a number of toolkits for it??? I'm thinking
> server-side, with many users sharing an active GL
> environment, then each user's session gets sent a
> .swf every so often, depending on the server and it's
> load, and the bandwidth and desired resolution of each
> user! Plan: world domination.
>
> "this idea is GPL'ed" as of now : )
>
> ben
>
> PS - I guess PoV doesn't really have a place in
> that venture, but I think it's cool and worth
> looking around for the frontend that serves you best...
