Well, actually Lightwave is more for the mid-range. Also, it's less
expensive than most others, and runs fine on most recent PC's (Pentium
90 perhaps).

For a lot of work done with Macs, Electric Image is used. Then there's
Alias and Wavefront.

BTW, Bab5 is more of a small-time production comparatively. Their budget
used to be half of Star Trek episodes.


blu### [at] junocom wrote:
> 
>  For ID4, the plane were computer modelled... whether they were ray-traced,
> path-traced, or photon-traced, I do not know. But most big-time raytracing
> productions (like Babylon 5) use a commercial package called Lightwave.
> Although IMHO Lightwave users generally do not turn out scenes quite as
> realistic as POV, it is much faster, and has somewhat better modelling
> techniques available to it. It is, however, VERY expensive, and requires
> an ungodly amount of power to run. With a little creativity, and some luck
> besides, I think POV can turn out better stuff. (I refer you to a user known
> as Taura Learfox)
>                                              Just my three cents. =)
>                                              Blue.

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