Comments on: Moray: Another Commercial 3D App Goes GPL

By: retsyo

retsyo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:05:10 +0000

it seems that moray is not a lucky one in this event. is it dead?

By: joe

joe — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:31:52 +0000

@epat

I read about POVRay sometimes back then. Some of the codes were bumped into copyright problems, since the original author are nowhere to be contact. Some of the codes are already opensourced, but some are not. Well at least that's what I've read in the manual. I think that's why there're some variant of POVRay available out there.

By: lalalalaaaaaasda

lalalalaaaaaasda — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:22:45 +0000

hehehe

By: lalalalaaaaa

lalalalaaaaa — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:21:47 +0000

haha. wow.. its so cool..!

By: epat

epat — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:42:48 +0000

cool – reading their announcement, it looks like they're intending to release the POV-Ray renderer itself as open source code in the not so distant future as well – not that I use windows anymore – but I'd love to have an excuse to port something cool to linux!! – lets just hope I'm not too busy with college work when they do finally get it out in the open!!

PS: POV-Ray was the first program I ever used todo with 3D as well lol – since then, I've not only switched to blender, but I'm also beginning to get completely fanatical about (F)OSS too – and I think I even switched to linux partly as a result of watching blender's development! – OSS ALL THE WAY!!!!

-epat. :)

By: joe

joe — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:24:58 +0000

Blender should "steal" some codes from it. although I'm not sure it have anything that blender don't. Nevertheless small commercial apps doesn't seem up to the Blender challenge. I havent heard much from 3D Canvas or AC3D anymore lately. Yet I was interested in those two back then and considering to buy a professional license. But blender drag me deeper and I don't seem to regret that decision :).

Blender gallery really goes far beyond those two. I think re-releasing a software like this as opensource a very smart move. Rather than the software slowly dies and get dusts piled on them and becoming forgotten. Let the communities gain some benefits from the codes.

By: darkcgi

darkcgi — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:17:42 +0000

Ive used it a while back. Its ok but it ain't got nuthin on Blender.
Who does?

By: aws357

aws357 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:01:14 +0000

We are the Blend… resistance is futile… you will be assimilated…

* sorry, but someone was going to say that somehow… *

Do you think they will join Blender? Or do you think Blender gained a pal? Or do you think Blender have his first serious nemesis? :p

By: Mppic

Mppic — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:51:39 +0000

Ah, those were the days… Moray was my first contact with a graphical modeller and I almost bought a license – but I discovered Blender just in time and spent the money on the Blender 2.0 Guide instead :-)
It's great to see this become open source!

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:15:55 +0000

Great! I used this great piece of software just after discovering pov-ray (it was little after dkbtrace :), and far before the internet, btw). i hope it can help blender get an (optional, skinnable) max & maya taste, for people loving those UIs. And yes, guy, think about what a great conference this year!!

Ciao!