Cheap (or free) raytracer with easy texture mapping?

[Magicthyse]

Can anyone recommend a cheap or freeware ray tracing program, which allows for easy texture mapping of large images (1280 x 1200) on a range of simple shapes? (cone, cylinder, sphere, cube, etc).

 

[jhu]

povray

bmrt

 

[Magicthyse]

Errr... Thanks.

Is there a tool for the DOS-and-non-Wysiwyg challenged?

 

[notfred]

Blender is probably your best bet.

I don't know if it's avaialble for windows or not, there site seems to be down.

 

[jhu]

you can use a modeller like moray, which can output to povray