Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why can't Curious Labs make a plugin for Bryce?

armitron opened this issue on Aug 14, 2003 ยท 79 posts


stewer posted Sun, 17 August 2003 at 5:39 PM

"REAL volumetric lighting" What's the difference between real and non-real volumetric lighting? I think rather than investing in FireFly, CL perhaps should have created an interface to a third party renderer the way Daz is doing with Studio. If you compare 3Delight and FireFly, their features are mostly identical: "3Delight is an advanced RenderMan-compliant renderer featuring a wide variety of features such as depth of field, motion blur, surface displacement, atmospheric effects, selective ray tracing and global illumination (ambient occlusion and color bleeding)." The only exceptions here would be the lack of GI in FireFly (The renderer itself is capable of GI, it just lacks the appropriate nodes. Pixels/Tempest ships with a node for ambient occlusion.), where on the other hand, 3Delight has nothing comparable to the material room (shaders for 3Delight are written in a C-like programming language). Still, iif you want to use 3Delight with Poser 5, go ahead and download my plugin, it's free and the MacOS X version is in the works too.