When was the last time you had to pay to beta-test software?
--- Oh well, ArchiCAD 8.0 comes to mind
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They either don't have the capital to get the ball rolling or they are so confident it will be good. But nevertheless, paying for an alpha-version is not that correct.
And the rendering look OK, but you can do that in other software too. The question is if you can make such renderings in a reasonable amount of time and know nothing about rendering at all. Then it's a good candidate to support.
If they have an easy import-format, then it might be tempting to try to support it with an ArchiCAD export-addon... I'm thinking or rewriting my Radiance addon (that is in pre-alpha stage) to support more render-engines (e.g. Renderman, POV-Ray & Radiance or so). The thing is that I still need to figure out how to get a clean, triangulated mesh, instead of the polygons with holes ArchiCAD provides.
--- stefan boeykens --- bim-expert-architect-engineer-musician ---
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