Radium Renderer ... proper website coming "soon"
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Details
Radium is an unbiased MLT (Metropolis Light Transport) renderer. It has native support for the Wavefront (.OBJ) file format and exporters have so far been written for Blender and Cheetah3D. It runs happily on any Java-supported platform (Windows (32-bit or 64-bit), Linux, Macintosh, Solaris etc.).
Latest Release
Installation Instructions
1. Create a "radium" directory (preferably under ...\My Documents\ on Windows or /home/<userid> on Linux)
2. Get the latest executable files (see above for the download link)
3. Open up the downloaded .zip file and copy the bin directory and its contents into your radium directory
Running Radium
1. Make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that is compatible with Java 1.5 or later. Windows, Linux and Solaris users can download it from here (look for "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6")
2. Ensure that the main Java runtime executable ("java.exe", "java" etc.) is on your path. This isn't essential but makes life a lot easier.
3. In a command-line/shell window, change directory to the Radium "bin" directory that you created before.
4. If you have 1Gb of memory, run the following command:
java -Xmx800m -jar Radium.jar
... this will run Radium with 800Mb of heap space. Tweak the "800" if you have more or less memory.
Note that the -Xmx800m option might vary depending on the platform and JRE vendor. If you're not sure, just type "java -help" on the command-line for a list of options.