Lightscape or RadioRay

[Jason M. Lowe]

Hello,

Has anyone used eithe radioray or lightscape? I am using 3D studio
max and currently the renderer is accurately lighting my scenes. Am I
correct in understanding that you import your model into lightscape and
do your texturing and materials in taht program? If anyone has used
these programs, please respond via email.

Jason Lowe
lo...@sk.sympatico.ca
Graphic Technical Services

[1220 Exhibits, Inc.]

>Am I correct in understanding that you import your model into lightscape
and do your texturing and materials in taht program?<

With Lightscapes import/export plug-in you can set-up the entire
scene(materials and lights) in max, export as a LS preparation file and
solve in LS, then export as a LS solution file and import the solution file
back into Max. You can then render your radiosity solution in Max or
animate it. Or you can model in Max and prep in LS.
Basically whatever workflow you establish LS will work w/ you. I have used
both applications and have found LS by far the better of the two. And hey
guess what? You get full documentation, fast becoming an extinct feature
from Kinetix. Another fine feature from LS is the ability to purchase the
hardware locked version and carry it from machine to machine, a bit more
convenient if your moving it between 2 seperate or multiple Max
installs(serial #'s). RadioRay requires Max with the original serial # it
was installed to. Very inconvenient if you are moving data between
locations.
Plug-in works in both R1.x and R 2.0, RadioRay has yet to be released for
R2. Hope this helps,

pja