Hello.

Does anyone know of any good, preferably Freeware (or less than $80) renderers to make ships, etc?

I run Windows XP, on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with a good video card and plenty of ram so that shouldn't be a problem. I'd like it to be compatible with Wings3D.

Could anyone help.

(yes I searched and didn't find anything relavant to my problem.

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Originally posted by The Real Darth Bob:
**Hello.

Does anyone know of any good, preferably Freeware (or less than $80) renderers to make ships, etc?

I run Windows XP, on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with a good video card and plenty of ram so that shouldn't be a problem. I'd like it to be compatible with Wings3D.

Could anyone help.

(yes I searched and didn't find anything relavant to my problem.

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Well, no offense but you couldn't have search very hard...
(url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/005526.html")One(/url), (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/005291.html")Two(/url), (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/005448.html")Three(/url), (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/004236.html")Four(/url), (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/004577.html")Five(/url).

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Originally posted by The Real Darth Bob:
**Hello.

Does anyone know of any good, preferably Freeware (or less than $80) renderers to make ships, etc?

I run Windows XP, on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with a good video card and plenty of ram so that shouldn't be a problem. I'd like it to be compatible with Wings3D.

Could anyone help.

(yes I searched and didn't find anything relavant to my problem.

**

Search harder. But to save you time.

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Originally posted by what_is_the_matrix for what feels like the 8 or 9th time...: **
POV-Ray (free), Wings 3D (free), Blender (free), Modo (currently in private beta), Alias Maya 5.0 Personal Learning Edition (free - not full featured w/ watermarks), Softimage XSI Experience ($19.95 - not full featured w/ less obtrusive watermarks than PLE), Animation Master ($299), Zbrush ($399), Eovia Carrara Studio 3 ($399), Maxon Cinema 4D 9 ($595), Strata 3DPro 3.9 ($695), Eovia Amapi 7 Pro ($799), Rhinoceros 3.0 ($895), Houdini 6.x ($1299-$17000), Softimage 3D 4.0 ($1495), Newtek Lightwave 3D 8.1 ($1595), Softimage XSI (no price quoted, but probably more expensive than Lightwave), Alias Maya Complete 6.0 ($1999), Discreet 3D Studio Max 7 ($3055), Alias Maya Unlimited 6.0 ($6999)**

I guess that your top two choices are: Blender 3D (www.blender3d.com) and POV-Ray 3D (www.povray.org). Oh yea, and for those of you who have seen this list before, I believe that it's now up to date (or at least close) in version and pricing. Of course, several of the more expensive titles can be found at significantly reduced price if you're a student at (url="http://"http://www.journeyed.com")www.journeyed.com(/url)

Matrix

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(This message has been edited by what_is_the_matrix (edited 08-29-2004).)

Maybe I should have said this. I have wings, blender, pov-ray, and photoshop. None seem to be capable of doing what I want them to. I would use pov-ray, but I can't get it to talk to wings. I think there is a plug-in for wings to do this, but it appears to be for a differnet version of pov-ray. Before I get i,t does anyone know if it is compatible (it's for pov-ray 3.5 and i have whatever the newest version is).

Edit: I am sorry I did see Matrix's, but I didn't get much from it. I did find three of the other five links.

I guess my question should have been can anyone recommend some 3D rendering tools to use.

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(This message has been edited by The Real Darth Bob (edited 08-29-2004).)

you know what's great? Google. Sorry, but that would be the first place I would go in my search. In fact, I did, and look what I found:

(url="http://"http://aqsis.sourceforge.net/index.php")http://aqsis.sourceforge.net/index.php(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.wings3d.com/faq_how_to.php")http://www.wings3d.com/faq_how_to.php(/url) <-- look in the part that says "So, how do I render my models?"

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(This message has been edited by sparky (edited 08-30-2004).)