> The expensive packages are better than POV

I am not sure that expensive package are always good (for me 3dS Max
is expensive :)). There use plenty 
of tricks to render faster but this not always so good. A renderer 
like mentalray (www.mental.com) is very very good because its 
calculations are right (behavior of light, etc...). And some 
commercial soft use it. But the default renderer of these commercial 
softs are very less good! But these soft have powerful modeller!
So can make "what you want" "easily".
Look at pbi I have put a picture take from a french NG of softimage.
This is a ring. The modelling is good but the render image is not
good at all. Where are the caustics? (and even without caustic, 
the rendering with Pov will be better! What's this gold color 
everywhere). Ok this is an example take from an amateur and a 
professional will do better :). But believe me Pov is really good :)

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

Fabian.



TonyB wrote:
> 
> >When I look commercial software, I am saying to me Pov is great!
> >Commercial software has just good modeller and animation facilities
> >that Pov don't have but concerning the rendering engine it is
> >often not better than Pov! (some commercial software include
> >caustic ( and even standard raytracing) only since few time)
> 
> Please remember that they are also faster at rendering than POV. POV is pure
> trayracing, but these guys only put it in where it is necesary (reflective,
> refractive surfaces). The expensive packages are better than POV, but what
> can one expect for $2500+? I mean, if ain't good at that price, then they're
> totally ripping you off. For me, POV is good enough (so far...). And you
> can't beat this price, can you?

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