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Old 17th October 2007, 05:58 PM   #1
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Default Free Stand-Alone Renderers

I put together a list of free, stand-alone renderers for anyone who's looking for one to render their AC3D scenes:
http://independentdeveloper.com/arch...rendering_soft
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Old 20th October 2007, 03:21 PM   #2
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Oooh, some I havent tryed. Its cristmas already
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Old 26th October 2007, 10:50 PM   #3
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Which would you recommend for a really, really dumb person who feels most pieces of software are a plague sent to curse them ...

well maybe not that bad .... but simplest ?
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Old 29th October 2007, 09:18 PM   #4
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Oooh, some I havent tryed. Its cristmas already
Yes, there's a few on there that are new to me, too, that I discovered when I was researching the list. I haven't had a change to fully delve into it yet as learning a new renderer is always a project, but the test images from 3Delight in particular look *really* nice.
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Old 29th October 2007, 09:35 PM   #5
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Which would you recommend for a really, really dumb person who feels most pieces of software are a plague sent to curse them ...

well maybe not that bad .... but simplest ?
Lol! You shouldn't beat yourself up that way. The first rule of good software design is that if someone can't figure out how to use it, it's not the fault of the user, it's the fault of the software.

luuckyy thoughtfully mentioned PoseRay as an add-on to that list. PoseRay is a front-end for PovRay that makes setting up scenes a lot easier, and would be a very good place to start.

Kerkythea is kind of interesting, too. It's a bit menu-heavy, but unlike a lot of the other ones it does have a full GUI.
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Old 30th October 2007, 04:07 PM   #6
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luuckyy thoughtfully mentioned PoseRay as an add-on to that list.
BTW, I'm sorry but it seems that I haven't been able to proprely use the ":url" tag when typing my message in your blog ... so that the PoseRay link actually links somewhere in your blog. Maybe it needs to be fixed. Sorry for that
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Old 2nd November 2007, 09:17 AM   #7
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Np! Fixed it. The instructions are confusing: It seems that the blog software treats anything after a colon as an url. Not sure what happens if someone trys to use a colon for normal typing!
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Bump.

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