"John D. Gwinner" <john dot gwinner at cornell dot edu> 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 ==

Take a very good look at SoftimageXSI. For $495 you get foundation with
MentalRay built in. XSI outputs obj files for poseray to convert to povray.
XSI has the best subdivision system in any program I have used. This is the
program I went with when I had this same need.

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