Spring RTS Engine

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Try blender, if you're a masochist.

Honestly, none.

Blender. Masochists prefer Milkshape.

If you're looking for rendering software take a look at the following:

* http://www.indigorenderer.com Unbiased renderer, slow at its current form, but gives out physically correct result. No GUI. Freeware.
* http://www.yafray.org Quite versatile rendering software. GPLed.
* http://www.povray.org

Blender internal renderer is quite fast and supports all sorts of fun stuff through the node editor. There's an export script for Blender to all the renderers mentioned above. Happy rendering.

God I hate this spam protection thingy.

yafrt (Yet Another Free Ray Tracer) can be used as a plugin for wings3d

I thought Yet Another Free Raytracer was abbreviated Yafray?

Yafray, Yafrt, both are used.

Things are ALWAYS Free.

YafRay is giving interesting results, though I have only touched the tip of it...

Tip from the people-whos-computers-are-on-strike-from-yafrays-last-assault: Don't try caustics in yafray for quite a bit.

I have tested with those, A: Extremely hard to control, I remember those and 5000 photons... Ow...

B: Makes it look better, or much worse... for me its always the latter...


Edit: Damnit, I am going uv that building so I can try and render with it...

Snipawolf wrote:YafRay is giving interesting results, though I have only touched the tip of it...

I can make a render like that with Blender's internal renderer and no raytracing.

Like I said, I've only touched the tip of it...

Not to mention, it pwns Wings3ds internal renderer...

Edit: I didn't even have raytracing enabled...

Yes, you did by mere fact of the shadows.

Shadowmaps maybe? *gasp*

Pfff, no way in hell that is known as ray tracing... Dynamic Lighting maybe..

If that was raytracing.. Then why is it called "YafRay" when both Blender and Wings3D can both render with "Raytracing (Shadows)" already?

And, that also brings KDR down..

Going by that logic, then he couldn't make a render like that without Ray Tracing, anyways...

Those are not shadowmaps, they are likely stencil-type shadows. Mathematically, those are a stripped down version of raytracing. Yafray one-ups the other raytracers in other programs by doing photons. Basically, if you don't use photons its probably faster to use the Blender builtin one.

(Wings/Blender use viewer->environment, yafray uses that+light->viewer in special cases)

the real answer is NONE...
even expensives such 3D MAX will still crash times to times when u got overcomplexes scene....

That doesn't mean much, 3ds MAX crashes even when you don't have an overcomplicated scene.