POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Pov vs comercial products : Re: Pov vs comercial products Server Time
10 Aug 2024 17:29:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov vs comercial products  
From: omniVERSE
Date: 20 Nov 1999 14:55:24
Message: <3836fcac@news.povray.org>
I third the motion about what Gilles T. said, and add the viewpoint that
POV-Ray has a lot going for it if you can manage to gather the widely (yet
much better linked now thanks to you know who) available resources out there
for gaining more useability and not break your budget down like the bells
and whistles of commercial programs are apt to do.

Bob

Matt Giwer <mgi### [at] giwersworldorg> wrote in message
news:38364946.E04AE4FA@giwersworld.org...
> Luciano Pennini wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >     I'd like to know if anybody can point me the differences between pov
> > and comercial packages like 3ds, softimage, etc.  I'm talking 'bout the
> > renderer capabilities, not the fact that the other programs have a
> > graphical interfase and pov doesn't.
>
> I'll second Mr. Tran. Clever tricks instead of the real thing.
> As an obvious point, the next time you see a CG movie or the CG
> parts of a movie pay attention to the shadows and you will see
> the real difference.
>
> And then of course there is price not only for the software but
> for an overpriced workstation named after a gemstone. The
> intermediate stuff is neither POV nor movie look and feel but
> their own look and feel.
>
> --
> <blink>---please--don't---</blink>
>
> http://www.giwersworld.org/artiii/
>
> Oh my God! They've rendered Kenny!


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