POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Commercial Povray : Re: Commercial Povray Server Time
6 Aug 2024 19:24:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Commercial Povray  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 19 Mar 2002 19:26:37
Message: <3c97d73d$1@news.povray.org>
> | pov is still distributed as it is now for free, and separate commercial
> | versions are created to integrate with commercial packages that cost a
> | fortune anyhow.
>
> I think POV-Ray would find it hard to enter a market dominated by
Renderman.
> Sure, POV-Ray is a ray-tracer, but so is BMRT, and BMRT is Renderman
compliant,
> whilst POV-Ray is not.
>
> BMRT was actually used in a scene in "A Bug's Life" because ray-tracing
> was needed for a glass object.

harder still if it never tries.

Rick


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