Not a Number went bankrupt, so they're not currently distributing Blender. They're exploring possibilities as to what to do with it, since it's one of their biggest assets. There was a story about it on Slashdot a few months back, so you can probably dig it up there. As for ray tracing, in 'Programming Linux Games' they used AC3D (http://www.ac3d.org) and exported the file in .pov format. AC3D isn't free, but I've heard good things. Checking out their site, they now have python scripts to allow importing Blender models as well. Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com steve ulrich wrote: > >wow - i haven't heard of povray in a long time. i used to play with >povray in my desqview/x days. iirc there was a list of modellers on >the povray.org site. > >blender is a nice 3d modelling packag that's available for the free >unices. the site doesn't appear to be online right now ... a google >search for blender yields blender3d.com which seems to point to some >issues w/the availability of blender from a legal perspective. i >would watch this, since if blender is ever released you would want to >get your hands on it. it's a great modeller. > >when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jun 21, 2002), > Bob Tanner was madly tapping out: > > >>Anyone into ray tracing? >> >>What are the best tools for linux these days? >> >>I'd like to use povray as the backend. I'm looking for a good >>modeller. Any recommendations? >> >> >> >> > > >