True. Moray is a good modeller. But keep a few things in mind.
Since you are familiar with programming, I strongly suggest learning to use the
POV scripting language. This is the real beauty POV - you can have it generate
objects and other things with scripts. Moray does not allow you to do this, so
you'd miss a lot.
Also, you can export from Moray to POV, but the reverse (as far as I know)
cannot be done.
And finally latest version of Moray (3.0) does not support all the features of
POV 3.1. They are working on a new version, though.
Also, Rhino and some others can export POV format and there are converters for
making POV files from other 3D formats, like 3DS (I have 3DStudio4 myself, not
Max, so I don't know about Max converters)

Hope this helps
Margus

Luiz Barreto wrote:
> 
> Well, that's how it is. There's no interactive viewport. You program the
> scene and then you render it at low quality and see what it looks like.
> You can get a modeller for POV where you can have interactive wireframe
> previewing, like Moray and others. There are links to Moray on
> www.povray.org and I think it's shareware, so you have to pay after you
> evaluate...
> Hope it helps you,
> Luiz Barreto.
>

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