True space eh?

[theinonen]

Realsoft 3D is still my personal favourite, but for the modelling nothing beats Metasequoia. It does just about everything right and can also be used for rendering the models directly as it has support for Renderman, and most likely is the easiest way to play with Non Commercial Renderman. Metasequoia also now has own physically based path tracing renderer that seems to be pretty good.

Renderman in action



Own PBR renderer in action

[theinonen]

Realsoft 3D version 8 is only 200 EUR, so pretty affordable and best of all no forced subscription to use the software. User interface looks pretty much the same but has Svg icons and works now properly with high resolution displays. Chrono and Dynatomic are now included with the software and there is now photon map option for lighting.

Generally it works better than the previous version but there is still some stability issues like software crashing and closing unexpectly.