Rendering Critique

[Night8917]

Hi George and all others.

I do agree with you that PovRay is a great Ray Trace engine; you can get a very good result from it.

I think the question is; is it a professional tool??

I think the answer is NO, I would think that hobbyists made 99% of the pictures in the Pov-Ray hall of fame and they have the time to make changes after changes to a Ray trace until the picture is perfect, a professional doesn’t have the time to do this.

If you can make 25 – 30, Ray traces with Artlantis during the same time as PovRay makes one, where do you have time to make adjustments to a picture? In Artlantis of course, and even if you make the picture 10 times bigger to get a better resolution it’s faster.

There are so many Rendering/Ray Trace engines out there today and 95% are MUCH faster than PovRay, the only advantage I see to PovRay is that it’s free.

I could show you Renderings/Ray Traces made in many other software’s that are picture quality, but like the Hall of fame 95% are made by the gurus for that software.

I’m sorry to say but in the world of today time is money.