Hi Felix, like Mark mentions I'd recommend giving Simlab composer a try:

http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-main.aspx

It's rendering edition is $149 so it's way less in price than those full blown packages like 3DS Max, etc... and it's also a lot easier to use than those big packages.

The other one that you might want to check out is Carrara: (EDIT: somehow didn't see shaun mention that above already)
http://www.daz3d.com/i/products/carrara


> I agree it would be nice to do everthing inside Moi but I don't
> think Michael sees it that way and it would bring it to the same
> level as other programs that we started to use much less then
> Moi because of their complexity.

At some point I do want to include some basic level of rendering directly in MoI just for convenience but it has not been a high priority since there are such a large number of rendering programs out there.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I downloaded simlab and tried loading a Moi 3dm file and it crashed, very bad for a first impression. It is supposed to read Rhino5 files, but tried an object file and it was ok at first glance. I'll have to register it otherwise it's just a file viewer basically. Anyway I'll give a serious try.

Oh! I almost forgot, would you have a suggestion for export format or should I try them all?

Thanks,
Felix

Use MoI as the mesher for simlab. OBJ.

BurrMan,

my first try didn't gave me a nice looking model even at over 300000 polys, would you have some suggestion to obtain something better?

Thanks,
Felix

Try looking at your output options for OBJ. Quads and tris help. What was wrong with the first try?

I made this with SimLab:


http://www.i386group.com/simlab/sim_pod/pod.html

At first, i used a huge poly count model (To be sure it looked smooth) A subsequent test, with a default obj export (very low poly's) looked the same...

Great!!!

Hi Felix - yeah you probably want to export an OBJ file out from MoI for going into Simlab and also it probably doesn't deal with complex n-gons very well so when doing the export set the option for "Output: Quads & Triangles" instead of "Output: N-gons" and that will probably avoid some problems.

- Michael