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#Raytracer for 3DS?

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#149774From: Kyle J. McKisicJan 28, 1995 11:13 AM
Can anyone suggest the best 3DS raytracer? thanks -Kyle
#149894From: Michael BassierJan 29, 1995 6:36 AM
As I 3DS user I would suggest RayMan. There is no other raytracer for 3DS that reads your complete scene/material information like RayMan does. You only have to load your .3DS scene and all your information (smoothing groups, mapping coords, multiple texture-, bump, opacity and reflection-maps, light settings, camera-settings, atmosphere and background settings and so on…) will be converted to RayMan. There is no other raytracer that supports phong and metal material in the same way than 3DS does. And RayMan can render regions and objects and because of the same view size (camera view) you can put the parts together with your 3DS rendered image. And RayMan is fast with an great image quality. Download the sample scenes in the lib for more information… Michael
#149930From: Kyle J. McKisicJan 29, 1995 1:01 PM
Hi Michael, thanks for the good info! how much does it cost, and who do I call to get it? thanks -Kyle
#150020From: Michael BassierJan 30, 1995 1:57 AM
RayMan is available from Digimation (if you`re in the states) for a special price of 595 US$ (after the 1th of march it will cost 948 US$). Michael
#150171From: Kyle J. McKisicJan 30, 1995 10:07 PM
Michael, thanks!~ -Kyle