--- Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tango Echo wrote: > > >Hi all, > don't be misslead ... Blender is a very complex & > powerfull tool ... you > wouldn't believe how powerfull. I wouldn't believe > it either at first > ... I thought it was just this free programm ... but > as you learn more > you'll be quite shocked. Really. I remember a > discussion on the Blender > mailing list about how people seem to take free > stuff as not-so-good > software ... while (at least in the case of blender) > .. it is sooooo > great ... that if you packaged it seriously, not > everything in one pack > .. but separate stuff for say scripts, a tutorial cd > & all .. you could > truthfully sell it for a high (and honest) value. > Give it a serious try > ... seriously ... when you've used all the tools it > has once ... I'm > quite sure you'll realize how strong it is (I know I > NEVER knew of a lot > of stuff it could do until I had done quite a lot of > tutorials ... then > also I remember one in which the author was saying > exactly something > like this ... something like the only animation > tools on the topic of > the tutorial that he knew were done as good as > blender were in Maya and > Softimage who got it right). > in short ... Blender is worth a lot of dough ... > and yet it's for > free .. it's only weak spot that is worth noting > were the radiosity > rendering that was lacking .. but that is being > patched right now from > like 3 direction (export to povray, export to yafray > (raytracer made > especially for blender or something like that, and > next version of > blender) .... oh, and one more thing ... a lot of > Blender artists find > it usefull to couple the power of Blender with the > modelling ease of Wings3d
Ok, so I admit it, I know nothing about 3D modeling. However, it is an interest of mine that I've always wanted to explore. My doubts in Blender weren't that it was free, but rather the quality of the screen shots I was seeing - they appeared to be rather low quality. I was very impressed by the screenshots on Wings 3D. However if I"m understanding this correctly, Wings is just the modeler and Blender is the actual component that renders the picture. Thus the actual quality of picture would come from the render component. I saw a few poeple on that forum say they were using Lightwave for renders. Tell me I'm missing something, that Blender can render images at least close to what Lightwave can do? Also, how does one integrate Wings into Blender and why isn't Wings in the Mandrake packages? TIA, Tango __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
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