I recommend using Novedge for all of your educational software needs. Rhino is $1000 retail and $125 for students. (No one told you? Ask smarter people!) All you have to do is set up an account and scan your ID.

You have to understand, that as a student, I have a very limited budget, and i’m not willing to spend more than 100$ on any piece of software.Īs a student, you qualify for discounted software. What are some good and cheap (or available on piratebay) programs/plugins for photorealistic rendering on a mac, preferably integrated with rhino? And don’t say brazil or flamingo cuz they dont come close to vray… i have considered rendering in maya (using built-in mental ray), or in blender… my last resort would be installing windows as well and doing my renders there

I do use pirated software (i’m not ashamed to admit it), but some pirated software for mac is very hard to find (e.g. However, the full editions of vray or maxwell (which i know produce fantastic results), both cost around 900 dollars. You have to understand, that as a student, I have a very limited budget, and i’m not willing to spend more than 100$ on any piece of software. I tried Maxwell for Sketchup, but it’s very troublesome, since you have to export your models, then import, and mostly because maxwell for sketchup is so very limited. The build in renderer in Rhino is no good to me, since I need photo-realistic results. I like modelling in Rhino a lot, but I have trouble deciding where and how to render what I make. I’m a first year architecture student, and I need some help with rendering my models.

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