Hi.
I just wanted to know if any of you had tried using Moray and PoV-ray to create 3D stuff.
PoV-ray is a free raytracer (available here http://www.povray.org/ ).
Moray is a 80 euro shareware modeler designed to work together with PoV-ray (http://www.stmuc.com/moray/ ).
They work pretty well together I think. I managed to churn out this pretty quickly.
Both programs are primarily Windows oriented, although PoV-ray has been ported to many platforms.
A cheap alternative to the more expensive 3D programs out there.
system
October 28, 2003, 2:05pm
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Tried them ages ago back at uni. Unless they’ve developed they are great if you know the math. I think Pov-ray was just developed to interface for all those who struggled with numbers greater than 9. Seemed ok at the time with the obvious exception that rendering to a week with the dark age of pentium 120’s
system
October 28, 2003, 2:24pm
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Yeah, those were the days…
I can faintly remembering laying out a scene on paper and then typing all the numbers into a text-file that you then fed through PoV.
They seem to have done some improvements. I don’t think there were area light sources when I tried it last.
If you look at PoV’s homepage, there are some truly amazing pictures showcased there. So some people are getting good stuff out of it.
system
October 28, 2003, 2:28pm
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Wohow, check this one out !
system
October 28, 2003, 2:39pm
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thats 3d?? if so thats amazing!! :!:
system
October 28, 2003, 2:51pm
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Yep if you have a spare 5 days
system
October 28, 2003, 3:18pm
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That’s amazing. I wonder who is modeling all those cars.
Some of the cars even look dirty: The little white Golf / Rabbit in the lower left corner…
system
November 1, 2003, 4:49am
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WOoahhhh… Man that must of took forever to render!
totally awesome…!, for some reason though i found the first one posted better. less is more i guess. still amazing
