gristle wrote:There is a blurb somewhere on their site stating that they think the software is such a game changer that they can survive by providing support/training etc. I guess they need it in use at as many places as possible to make that work.
It must take some serious faith in your product to offer it for free like this.
radiance wrote:Machstudio is an extended DirectX based renderer, not a raytracer but a z-buffer engine, much like a game engine,
so it does'nt support raytraced effects, and output is very different (although faster) than unbiased raytracers.
Radiance
Well I guess Machstudio isn't a competitor to Octane. Both are very different and useful in their own ways. Machstudio looks very good for pre-viz and the types of animated kids TV shows that are on these days (they're bad shows, but it's the same rendering style)