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Do we have a spiritual successor of POV-Ray nowadays? I mean… Maybe it‘s so niche, that it doesn’t need one. But scripting 3D scenes might be compelling.
by MrGilbert 2y ago
Do we have a spiritual successor of POV-Ray nowadays?
I mean… Maybe it‘s so niche, that it doesn’t need one. But scripting 3D scenes might be compelling.
- gorkish 2y agoDoes it really need a "successor"? OpenSCAD uses a text based language to describe the construction of geometry in a CAD-focused workflow and is conceptually similar in this regard to POV-Ray Both packages have a larger ecosystem surrounding them -- that is to say they are not the only tools which support their language specifications. Naturally there is some focus on interoperating - the ability to convert an OpenSCAD model to a POV-Ray scene in order to visualize it, for instance. Purely as a creative tool, I think anyone who might have reached for POV-Ray in 1993 would reach for Blender today.