John D. Gwinner wrote:
> Folks:
> 
>   I'm thinking of getting a comercial modeler and possibly renderer. 
> Currently, I have student status due to talking a UCLA writing course 
> extension.
> 
>   It's a lot, but I could possibly afford 3DSMax, and I have to say I'm 
> tempted.
> 
>   However, I like POVRayy's rendering so I'm wondering what moving to a 
> comercial package would give me, or more accuratly, what' I'd lose.
> 
>   Do any of them do procedural texturing?
> 
>   Any advice?
> 
>         == John == 
> 
> 

You might want to look at Silo: http://nevercenter.com/ Very intuitive, 
great feature set, *MUCH* easier to learn than MAX and it outputs code 
suitable for POVray. Oh, and it's far less expensive than buying MAX... 8^)

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