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Old 14th July 2004, 02:48 PM   #1
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this program seems to have almost no common file types to render to. seeing as im a teenager, i dont exactly have money to spend to purchase a program just for rendering. in fact, i bought ac3d since it was cheap and usable. so, does anybody have a suggestion on how i can render or export a model i have made? thanks for the help
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Old 14th July 2004, 04:12 PM   #2
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What file formats were you looking for?

Download Povray from www.povray.org. It's free and very good. See the section in the manual about rendering.

AC3D is mostly configured for Povray - see Tools->render.

There's also renderman compatible output. There are a number of renderers for this format too.

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Old 14th July 2004, 04:41 PM   #3
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thank you very much. i checked out about 3 of the programs and as far as i could tell, they all cost money and i was concerned that ac3d would be practically usless for me. thanks again
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Old 14th July 2004, 04:43 PM   #4
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Povray is very good. Woody used it for his great pictures on the gallery.

Check out his tutorials on this forum - also his own web page.

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