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Re: Sad news the Indigo Renderer is going commercial

by bART Janssens-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Scott
Matthews<dsmatthews@...> wrote:
> Tim, it is an awesome render, you only need to see the results people
> get with it, but now that they have pull the rug out from everyone is
> it worth developing the plug-in further or is it better to search for

I'd say that this depends on user demand. If a renderer is very
popular, even if it is commercial, it's a good idea for K-3D to
support it. So the work Tim did is not lost, in my opinion.

> the best alternative in the FOSS realm? No v 2.0 on Linux is the bit
> that has me concerned the most as the other issues with the free
> version can be programed around quiet easily.

Yes, too bad about the Linux version. Hopefully they will release it a
little later, given the number of linux clusters out there, I can't
imagine them not releasing a linux version of the renderer.
Programming around the limitations seems like a bad idea, however: we
can use the demo version to get things working, but for production use
people should buy the renderer or use something else.

Cheers,

--
Bart

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