On 13 March 2008 at 7:17, "Thomas Vecchione" <seablaede> wrote:
At the moment the only thing I know of along these
lines exists as part of
the uni-verse project(www.uni-verse.org).
Yes, the glossy looks maybe good, but the product is vapor as of yet.
At the moment the software I know of that does
acoustical renderings is
limited to fairly expensive software. EASE and ODEON are the two largest
projects that I know of, and there are some specialized ones out there like
DDA for the Duran Audio speakers. To be honest, I haven't used ODEON (WELL
above my price range) but I have EASE, and while it certainly does the job,
modeling the room in 3D in it is painful to say the least. Thus why I would
rather be able to model and render in Blender myself. I am keeping an eye
on the Uni-Verse efforts, but I don't expect that to go in the direction I
would like for acoustic simulations, it is more likely to simulate
environments for use in 3D games and the like, related but different. EASE
and/or ODEON MIGHT be able to run in Wine, but due to the copright
installation limitations on EASE, I have not yet tried it. At the moment I
run it via VMWare as a result.
EASE looks exactly like what I'm looking for. But, at $800US it's
well out of my price range. Bummer.
Thanks for the tips....
--
Kevin