Here is my humble opinion on bb, whatever it's worth...
Since Artlantis R, with it´s superb handling of 3d objects, I quit on BB.
The BB trees are gastly, and we only used them because 3d trees are so polygon heavy.
BB people are a little better, but have a couple of problems, being:
- They are photographic, so you get a resolution scale problem: persons have too much graphical information, when compared to the architectural objects and textures.
- They only work if your camera is about leveled at eye height. If you want to show a different perspective, they show up their trick.
- Shadow handling is tricky. If the sun is not behind you, you get really thin shadows.
- Chromatic and light values are different from your main image, so they feel "out of place".
- Most of them look foreign, or slightly deranged.
- Other stuff. this is getting too long.
Artlantis R can handle complex 3d objects very well, and even convert 3ds files.
These files you can buy, convert them into Artlantis objects and reuse them.
Some of them are very good and expensive, some are cheap and look it.
The best quality/price relationship I have found comes from
www.formfonts.com
For the price of a meal per month, you can download and use as much objects as you want. But you have to maintain your subscription to continue using the objects. Still, its pretty cheap for the quality they have.
And no, I have no commission...
Noemi Balogh
