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> But unless your models lend themselves to being made simply in POV, you 
> will
> save time by using a modeller and hence be able to spend more time making
> your scene look amazing, which is what the judges want IMHO.

There are many areas where the power of POV-Ray's SDL can be harnessed to 
create amazing things without equivalent in a modeller. After all, there's a 
good reason why some sort of script is supported in many high-end 3D 
packages...
Basically, everything that can be built algorithmically through a 
shape-building macro has a definite edge over modellers, where this sort of 
procedure isn't very natural. Creating a macro to generate hundreds or 
thousands of different objects based on a random seed is something quite 
unique to POV-Ray for instance (see Chris Colefax's city generator, or my 
own pipe and cloud macro). POV-Ray's SDL will let you place them 
automatically and cleverly too. High-end modellers can do this sort of 
things, but it's really more work than it would be in POV-Ray (at least from 
my current experience with Rhino and Cinema 4D). If you throw in mesh 
instanciation and a smart use of primitives, it becomes possible to create 
insanely complex-looking structures without a render farm. Actually, POV-Ray 
can manage complexity quite well.

G.


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