On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:30:33PM +0800, Michael Peligro wrote: > 1. Are there any "Maya" or "Alias Wavefront" equivalents that are affordable > for him to learn and use? Or does he need to work (or apprentice) for > ImagineAsia Studios to further hone his skills? >
There's blender. I believe the bounty has been paid and it's now free software. > Of course he can only use his workstation for design/creation purposes only, > and he can never afford a render farm (he also sincerely hopes that someday > in the future, several clustered Linux on legacy machines (Pentium I, II) can > serve as a "poor man's" render farm). Or can he crunch the images in his > computer's spare cycles overnight? > Of course. I used to do ray tracing with a program i've written myself on an old 386 (ouch!) which took a day to produce a low-res image. > 2. What software is used for "image-crunching?" I've done image crunching on my own custom ray tracing software for one (unfortunately the code's gone na... am rewriting it using ObjC). Programs like POV-ray are also usable. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph> +63(2)8123151 Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc. +63(917)4458925 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
