[Bf-funboard] Comprehensive comparison chart

[Kent Mein]

In reply to Tom Musgrove (tommusgrove__ at hotmail.com):

> Okay here they are in Excel and PDF format
> 
> http://wiki.blender.org/pub/Requests/CompetitorComparison/BlenderComparisonchart.xls
> http://wiki.blender.org/pub/Requests/CompetitorComparison/BlenderComparisonchart.pdf
> 
> Right now they aren't of much use to endusers.

When I download the pdf I can't see much...
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/table.png

Kent

> 
> Here are the main comparison categories
> 
> Modeling - Polygon Modeling, Box Modeling, Nurbs, Metaball, Sculpt Tools, 
> Splines, Patches, Implied surface modeling
> 
> Texturing - Brush support, Alphamap support, Layer/channel support, 
> Presets, Animated Textures, Volumetric Textures, Procedural Textures, Image 
> Projection, Tiling, UV mapping
> 
> Animation - Rigging, Motion Capture, Pose Libraries, Animation Libraries, 
> Prebuilt Rigs, Synthetic Motion
> 
> Lighting and Rendering - Built in/Native Render, Speed, Accuracy, Feature 
> set, Shader Support, Ease of Use, Licensing, Live Preview/Incremental 
> Update, RIB support, External NonRIB? support
> 
> Simulation - Crowds, Cloth, Fluids, Fire and Flame, Smoke, Solid Physics, 
> Soft body Physics, Hair and Fur, Ocean and Waves
> 
> Wizards - Heads, People, Cars, Animals, Terrain, Plants and Trees, 
> Creatures, Architecture, Hair and Fur*, Cloth*
> 
> Scripting - Programming, Macro
> 
> Game Engine
> 
> Interoperability - Import tools, Export tools, Cross Platform, Embedding
> 
> Interface - Gizmo's, Collapsible Pallets, Key bindings Configurable, Mouse 
> bindings Configurable, Help System, Tutorials
> 
> Price Standalone
> 
> Price With common addons
> 
> 
> 
> I'll try and do some of the categories I'm familiar with tonight...
> 
> LetterRip
> 
> 
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