comomolo wrote:
> I don't know a word about povray. I just use XSI and Maya in my very little
> studio and don't want to buy more mental ray very expensive licenses,
> especially when I dream of building a renderfarm of my own. I was wondering
> how easy or difficult it is to use povray as my main renderer (is it even
> possible?) and leave mental ray behind.

That's a question next to impossible to answer for someone who does not 
know the details of your work.  It is a bit like asking "is a motorboat 
a good replacement for a car?".

A few facts you might not yet know:

- POV-Ray is a standalone program and not a plugin renderer.  For using 
it you will need to write POV-Ray scenes or get/write a tool that 
generates POV-Ray scenes from your Maya/whatever scenes.

- While common plugin renderers usually only render triangle meshes 
POV-Ray supports a lot of other shapes as well.  This offers a lot of 
possibilities but also means POV-Ray supports no techniques that only 
work on meshes.

Christoph

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