BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  OT: 3D Graphics Package          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Graphics View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Chris Trueman Guest Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:45 am    Post subject: OT: 3D Graphics Package I've been using trueSpace for a few years for fun and some business graphics but poor stability is making me thinking of switching to something else. I've recently looked at Blender and downloaded (but have not installed) Modo. I was wondering what, if anything, people around here used. Chris. Back to top David J Taylor Guest Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:11 am    Post subject: Re: 3D Graphics Package Chris Trueman wrote: Quote: I've been using trueSpace for a few years for fun and some business graphics but poor stability is making me thinking of switching to something else. I've recently looked at Blender and downloaded (but have not installed) Modo. I was wondering what, if anything, people around here used. Chris. Does GLScene meet your needs? http://glscene.sourceforge.net/wikka/HomePage David Back to top David Ninnes Guest Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:33 pm    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package Chris Trueman wrote: Quote: else. I've recently looked at Blender and downloaded (but have not installed) Modo. I was wondering what, if anything, people around here used. I tried to use Blender, but found it's command set very obtuse, I'd have to be using it daily to make it worthwhile imho. Povray I've used in the past and the results are superb, though it too can be tedious. Moray is a design front end for povray that isn't too bad, it's shareware, but the cost is fairly reasonable. I don't do this as a living though just the occassional logo and button - I've made a few with Povray and always get oohs and aahs from stuff that didn't take long to whip up. I don't think you can beat povray for fun. hth, Dave Back to top Eddie Lotter Guest Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:30 pm    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package "David Ninnes" <david_ninnes (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:462b641d (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Chris Trueman wrote: [...] I tried to use Blender, but found it's command set very obtuse, I'd have to be using it daily to make it worthwhile imho. Povray I've used in the past and the results are superb, though it too can be tedious. Moray is a design front end for povray that isn't too bad, it's shareware, but the cost is fairly reasonable. [...] The POV Team acquired Moray and have opened sourced it. No more shareware. http://povray.org/news/index.php#195 Cheers Eddie Back to top David Ninnes Guest Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package Eddie Lotter wrote: Quote: "David Ninnes" <david_ninnes (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:462b641d (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Chris Trueman wrote: [...] I tried to use Blender, but found it's command set very obtuse, I'd have to be using it daily to make it worthwhile imho. Povray I've used in the past and the results are superb, though it too can be tedious. Moray is a design front end for povray that isn't too bad, it's shareware, but the cost is fairly reasonable. [...] The POV Team acquired Moray and have opened sourced it. No more shareware. http://povray.org/news/index.php#195 Cheers Eddie Good news! Thanks Eddie Back to top Chris Trueman Guest Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:32 am    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package Quote: I don't do this as a living though just the occassional logo and button - I've made a few with Povray and always get oohs and aahs from stuff that didn't take long to whip up. I don't think you can beat povray for fun. Now that brings back memories. My final year project was a fractal landscape generator that used POVRAY for rendering. I had not thought to look it up in the many years since. Thanks for the prompt. Chris. Back to top Dominique Louis Guest Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:09 am    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package You may want to look at Delgine ( http://www.delgine.com/ ) which is actually written in Delphi to boot. The guys there are are very helpful. btw, which version of trueSpace are you using? I have 4.3, which is quite old, but seems ok. Dominique. Chris Trueman wrote: Quote: I've been using trueSpace for a few years for fun and some business graphics but poor stability is making me thinking of switching to something else. I've recently looked at Blender and downloaded (but have not installed) Modo. I was wondering what, if anything, people around here used. Chris. Back to top Caleb Hattingh Guest Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:48 pm    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package Quote: I've been using trueSpace for a few years for fun and some business graphics but poor stability is making me thinking of switching to something else. I've recently looked at Blender and downloaded (but have not installed) Modo. I was wondering what, if anything, people around here used. Chris. Hi Chris I bought the Blender book. If you have any intention of learning Blender, show yourself kindness and buy the book. Otherwise it could be very frustrating. That said, Blender is exceptionally good. I have played around with all of Moray, 3DS, Bryce, Maya, sPatch, Hamapatch, and many many smaller freeware 3D packages. Naturally, the commercial ones are very good and offer features in a more polished fashion than how they're provided in Blender - but the mesh-editing tools in Blender really are very high-quality. Blender's UI is geared to efficiency of use rather than new-user-friendliness (somewhat like ViM). That means heavy use of keyboard commands, although much functionality can be accessed with the mouse - but don't do that, learn the keyboard commands; it only takes a day or two to learn the most commonly-used commands, and after that you're cruising. In the newly updated Blender (2.46? or something) there is a sculpture mode that lets stroking with the mouse or a tablet perform mesh editing. I haven't tried it yet, but the screenshots of what people have made with it look really good. Since you're in a Delphi forum, I presume you write code. Blender exposes large chunks of itself through the python API. (It would not be that hard to write a python wrapper for blender to interface Delphi code - maybe I'll try that sometime) There are exporter scripts for dumping scene geometry made in Blender to many renderers or other 3D packages. The yafray renderer can be integrated with Blender directly, but there is also a full-featured export script called povanim that dumps Blender work to POV-Ray. I have also written a much less-featured to-POV-Ray exporter in python that only dumps meshes, cameras and lights and wraps them in an include file with convenient names for each mesh. The API makes such things fairly easy. But be warned about getting that book :) As far as renderers go, POV-Ray is not the fastest around, but it is fairly full-featured, fully procedural, and I know it (by far) the best which is the reason for my bias. Caleb Back to top Chris Trueman Guest Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:31 am    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package 6.6 with a patch. The crashers are random but so frequent you are always change, save, change, save, ... It's a shame really, the direct manipulation 3D modelling tools are very easy to use and great fun. I have 5.2 and 4.3 kicking around here someplace. Maybe I should downgrade :( Chris. Quote: btw, which version of trueSpace are you using? I have 4.3, which is quite old, but seems ok. Back to top Chris Trueman Guest Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:32 am    Post subject: Re: OT: 3D Graphics Package Thank you for such a detailed reply. Chris. Quote: I bought the Blender book. If you have any intention of learning Blender, show yourself kindness and buy the book. 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