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3D software and ray
tracing
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Now3D |
| Now3D is a good ray tracing
software, with a useful GUI and many
interesting features, like bump
mapping, global illumination, fog,
photons, reflections/refractions,
and more. Cannot compete with
commercial applications (like
Lightware or 3D Studio Max), but you
can obtain neverthless good results.
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OVERALL:
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PovRay |
| PovRay is an open source
software for ray tracing, with
stunning features and results. It
can match most of commercial 3D
software, just look at its main
features: radiosity, photons for
realistic, reflected and refracted,
caustics, atmospheric effects,
particle media to model effects like
clouds, dust, fire and steam, and
much much more. The quality of
rendering is excellent, but...
PovRay has not a GUI, but only a
textual user interface (you can use
a GUI of 3d parties, anymway), and
learning it is not very useful.
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OVERALL:
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Terragen |
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Terragen is a landscape and scenery
generator for Windows and the Mac
OS. At this stage of its
development, Terragen is still free
for personal use.
It is very easy to use (you can
render you first landscape in a few
minutes), and has many features like
water, cloud layer, terrain
modification tool, soft shadows,
volumetric lighting and much more.
At this
stage it is not possible adding
trees and vegetation. The quality of
pictures can be very good, as you
can see in
this page.
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