Simple easy to use renderer

[ben]

hi

i am after a nice,quick,simple,cheap way of creating photorealistic images. I've messed around on and off with photorender over the years and it just doen't create the kind of level of image quality i need.

My requirements are:
1. be able to import a proe model, or iges/stl
2. dead easy to use (would be purely used for simple renderings)
3. inexpensive
4. quality of image to be 'realistic', where someone might glance at the image and ask themselves whether it is computer generated. after further inspection they would probably conclude that 'yep, it's been done on a computer'

Any advice/pointers would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

ben

 

[dojo]

Hello,


my 2 cents :


a) ARX : still does not keep up with the big boys in render software and too expensive for what it is (1400

 

[ben]

Thanks for that. Maxwell looks very good. Frustrating as there is no plugin for Proe (there is for solidworks)...
been checking out blender http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/images/ not as powerful as maxwell....but free and has pro/e render file input to

thanks

ben

 

[Israr]

Ben,


I have been using MAYA for rendering. Its host for Pro/E models. By the way Widfire 3 and 4 offer lots of improvements and I have created some masterpieces inside ProE. Especially .lwa files are now supported and lots of free .lwa files are available on net which can beautify your work.


Israr Ullah