Also check out blender http://www.blender.org/ On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, TheBigBoss <thebigboss@peperuka.com>wrote:
I have been playing for years with POVRAY. It's an open source rendering application and it has a large community and there are tons of free plugins/codes.
POVRAY is just a rendering tool (with advanced option like photons shoot and interior media settings) so I also use Blender (or any mesh program like Wings3D) to create my shapes, animation plugin to create advanced animation, HDR application to create HDR images (with real lighting environment) and UV mapping & texture map to create real texture.
Have a look at their resources pages (http://www.povray.org/resources/links/) to see itsr huge rendering/2D/3D open source library.
I had a lot of fun playing with POVRAY and I was starting to get good results. Sadly, I dropped rendering with web coding :( 1/ Photons + Media + HDR lighting + Global environment - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/glasspot2.jpg 2/ Just Photons + Media - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/glasspot.jpg 3/ Raw/Fast UV Mapping - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/pencil.png (http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/pencil_diffuse.png) 4/ Tribute to Man Ray - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_626.jpg 5/ Swimming Pool (my first render) - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_634.jpg 6/ I made Kenya High quality relief map + layers (using NASA black/white elevation map) - http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_624.jpg + http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_623.jpg + http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_622.jpg + http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_621.jpg + http://www.ocelia.com/tmp/gd_620.jpg
Never tried MAYA becoz of his cost :) and too lazy to start anoter learning process...
Hope this help...
TBB On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
This thing costs a mountain. Testing simple images with sprites and 2D, not worth the mounatin. To MAYA or not, is it worth it long term. Anyone been down this road? :-)
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