Hi,
V5
what is best free software to have for creating realistic view lighting etc , having heard of raytracing and support for my CUDA GTX970 ?
Any links to well spoken ‘queens english’ good easy to follow tutorials welcome.
Cheers
Steve
I believe your best bet is to export your model to Blender and render it there using the same technology @nathanletwory brought to Rhino6 (Cycles Renderer)
If you do decide to give Blender a go do get the 2.80 version (even though it is in beta still). I have written an importer for 3dm files, and I have created a theme and keymap that try to mimic Rhino.
And indeed, as @ivelin.peychev mentioned, the Cycles Renderer in Blender is pretty much the same as in Rhino (with some modifications of my own, and a bit older version).
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Hi,
ok,
I have now Blender for mesh editing, I think it also has other advantages so this seems to be one !
I wish though these progs all shared Rhinos navigational controls,
Can blender be set up to have the naviagtion of the 3D world as per rhino defaults ?
My brain just cant adapt to different methods in meshlab blender meshmixer and so on.
Steve
I requested the same thing a while ago.
Blender is highly customizable so if you simply spend some time in the options you can configure it as close as possible.
Hi,
There is hope yet , I realy would be most grateful if you could post a screen dump of your settings…pleeeeeze 
I have run out of time after 4 days of wall to wall testing of these progs and need to be able to navigate blender tonight but gave up on the nav controls.
Cheers
Steve
Unfortunately I haven’t used Blender for years. Blender itself has evolved quite a lot. If I had any saved settings they are either deleted or won’t work anymore.
@Steve1 for Blender 2.80 I keep a repository for the key map and the UI theme here:
I could also add my startup .blend, so that also the initial view of Blender looks more like Rhino with 4 viewports:
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And here the importer for rhino files into Blender: https://github.com/jesterKing/import_3dm
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That is awesome look. Great job @nathanletwory
Nathan, any idea when will Blender 2.80 will be released (as beta) on steam?
I’ve just updated the keymap to work with latest Blender 2.80, tweaked the UI theme a little (selecting text in a number field gave a black box in the number field, didn’t work so well 
) and also added a .blend file one can use to seed their own startup state.
I think the guy doing the Steam management only does releases, no betas.
But really, Blender Builds - blender.org is all you need.
Uhm, 
@nathanletwory, how do you drag with the new keymap?
Right, I hardly ever tweak, I’m a GSR (grab, scale, rotate shortkeys) kinda guy.
Anyway, I pushed a fix for that: alt+LMB drag is now tweak instead of RMB drag.
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