Hi Jean-Sebastien,
As I have discovered from my travels with Blender their are numerous
OPEN SOURCE Free Standalone Render apps of different flavours:
http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/
http://sunflow.sourceforge.net
AND for those who favour RENDERMAN have a look here:
http://www.3delight.com/en/
http://www.aqsis.org/xoops/modules/news/
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~okan/Pixie/pixie.htm
http://jrman.sourceforge.net/
All of these - opensource also. 3DElight is free ish, but looks real good.
Yip - Jean, if some of our RS Coders could do some plugins for RS [
as is the case with Blender ] it would be excellent .. Hint Hint :)
Primarily, I stress because these apps are FREEE & Open Source.
Cheers
Aidan
At 14:04 06/08/2007, you wrote:
Aidan O Driscoll wrote:
Hi Guys,
Been using Blender [ v2.44 ] on and off over the last few months.
One thing that Blender has is access to a lot of FREEEEE EXTERNAL
standalone Render Apps. These include INDIGO, SUNFLOW and PIXIE [
Renderman ], [ google the words to find the sites ] but the one
for here is KERKYTHEA:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/
Their is a special build of Blender which has Kerkythea integrated,
but today I launched Kerkythea itself to find, in the File, Open
menu it can import OBJ etc. So this obviously gives an in for
REALSOFT. Model in RS, export as OBJ and then open in Kerkythea for
an alternative render [ as one may do with Maxwell etc, but at huge
cost as opposed to this being free ]. This standalone render app
has GI implementation etc, in fact read this:
/Supported Rendering Techniques
- Classic Ray Tracing
- Path Tracing (Kajiya)
- Bidirectional Path Tracing (Veach & Guibas)
- Metropolis Light Transport (Kelemen, Kalos et al.)
- Photon Mapping (Jensen) [mesh maps, photon maps, final
gathering, irradiance caching, caustics]
- Diffuse Interreflection (Ward)
- Depth Rendering
- Mask Rendering
- Clay Rendering
/as per features page here:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=48
<http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=48>
This one of course is for all you doodlers. Maybe some fun. AND I
stress, this mail is not set up for comparison reasons OR to have
a stab at RS, just may be of interest to some.
It has its own materials workshop, lights, cameras etc.
Cheers
Aidan
I wish Realsoft could be used as a command line standalone renderer
with a RIB interface.
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.NeuroWorld.ws
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