Introduction to VIRTUALIGHT
VIRTUALIGHT is a sophisticated standalone rendering engine that allows previewing and photorealistic rendering of 3D scenes. Like the RenderMan Interface (R) from Pixar, its interface may be thought of as a 3D scene description format (this interface is not Renderman compliant). It can be used as a communication protocol between any modeling programs or production packages and the VIRTUALIGHT renderer to produce photorealistic quality images.
VIRTUALIGHT is free for personal use and available for Windows (Win32). A Linux version is coming soon (May/June). However, it is a shareware software. This means that to keep using it for educational purpose or commercial gain of any kind (including profiting from any published images or animations created with it), you will be requested to register by sending the author a donation ($50 US).
VIRTUALIGHT is also distributed with several utilities that allow data conversion from other 3D geometry file formats (like 3DS, OBJ, 3DSMax, Blender, Maya, etc.) to the VirtuaLight Interface Bytestream. The current version is supplied with a 3DStoVIB conversion utility and a Python export script for Blender
Did any of you Windows users ever try this out?
www.3dvirtualight.com
Another news: Just saw on
www.computerarts.co.uk
that the new Bryce 5 will be arriving shortly. There are some previews etc. on the site.
If you don't work against time, time often works for you.
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