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DarkkANGEL
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anybody know of any...? READ ALL
I'm looking at having to use POV-ray, HOWEVER the method it uses to setup the scene, objects, lights, etc. is rather daunting. Scene Description or something like that.
Anyways I've been looking for something that isn't text based, something where I can set everyhting up with buttons and menu options... stuff like that... USER-friendly so to speak. But if not I'll learn it and work it out the hard way.
pref. freeware by the way... I'm poor as a brick. (brick? I must be stupid) Thanx

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dark coder
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Posted: 2nd May 2007 12:00
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Try Blender, while I have no experience using it, it can do raytrace rendering.

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BatVink
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Posted: 2nd May 2007 14:34
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Blender + Yayfray is a recommended combination.

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Venge
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Posted: 2nd May 2007 15:26 Edited at: 2nd May 2007 15:27
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Yea, blender has it's own internal renderer, and easy use of the yafray renderer.
It also has scripts you can download to export to POV-ray, Indigo, and Kerkythea...

All of which are free by the way
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hessiess
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Posted: 2nd May 2007 15:31
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and sunflow. bi is verry dificult to get good results with, yafray is simpler, its what i use.

learn blender, you will never regret it.
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Crit
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I used to use Pov-ray a long time ago. Back then there was a front end modeler called Povsb. I just looked around and didn't find povsb, but there is another one called Moray - http://www.stmuc.com/moray/.

Eh, my brother does all our 3d modeling anyway. He uses blender.
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DarkkANGEL
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Posted: 5th May 2007 01:49
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Well... thanks everyone for the useful info.
I guess I'll be checking stuff out and see what suites me best...

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