Re: free alternative to povray?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:04:07PM +0100, Rémi Letot wrote:
> Jason Stechschulte <stech@ypisco.com> writes:
>
> > The recent ongoing discussion on the removal of non-free software has made
> > me wonder if there is a decent alternative for povray. I was just
> > beginning to learn povray, so now would be a good time to switch to a
> > new program if one exists.
>
> Try blender. The version in debian is not yet free, but a new
> completely gpl version has been released. I guess it'll come to
> debian main when it's ready.
The POV-Ray team intends to change to a free license as soon as they do
a complete rewrite, though. They are stuck with the current mess since
they don't know/can't contact the original authors of many parts anymore.
>From what I know Blender isn't a complete replacement since it isn't a
full raytracer. Which means that it can't render real reflections, for
one thing.
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