I was looking on the internet for a free alternative to 3ds Max when I found a program called Blender. I figured "Okay cool." But the renders were awful and I couldn't figure out how to use it, but that's not why I'm posting this. I found a renderer that works with Blender called Indigo and it does some good work.
Unfortunately if its the free version it will always have that watermark at the bottom, but for me, that's a small price to pay to not have to BUY 3DS Max and Brazil. I use a plugin called Blendigo that combines the two programs.
There's a plugin called "Maxigo" that combines 3DS Max and Indigo if anybody would prefer it over Brazil.
I'm still figuring Blender out so It'll be awhile before I can actually get any renders, but I do know that it will import .3ds files. It will not however import .Max files so if anybody has any original .3ds scenes I'd greatly appreciate it. If you have Max you could covert it to .3ds that would be great too.
