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| Posted by hansmex at Jun 29, 2010, 3:44:36 AM |
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Re: material questions Paulo: SH3D is a relatively simple 3D design program. Its main purpose is to design in 2D a home interior, which is then "automagically" shown in 3D. The main focus of the program (as I see it) is user-friendliness. So, if a requested feature is too complex for the average user, chances are it doesn't get implemented in the program. That said, the program has seen a very strong development over the last year and many new features have been added. As to rendering, new lights have been made, and a few plug-ins have been written that greatly improve the basic rendering that's provided by the "bare" program. Even so, the program is no match for programs like Blender, that offer movie-quality features and rendering options, albeit at the price of a rather steep learning curve. If you like the program for its ease of use, you might consider using it to make your design, and then switch to a program like Blender to add sophisticated lighting, textures, bump maps, reflection,ray tracing, etc. The Export as OBJ function in SH3D enables you to do so. Maybe, tomorrow morning I shall try to elaborate my answer and provide (back-)links to articles in this forum where you can find the plug-ins (but feel free to search for yourself for SH3P ). Hans ---------------------------------------- Hans new website - under constuction hansdirkse.info |
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