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What Happened To Moonlight Atelier?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-did-they-go? dept.

entropi asks: "Does anyone know what happened to the X 3d rendering program Moonlight Atelier? The website is now non-existent and its entries have dissappeared from freshmeat as well. This was a cool program that helped fill an important niche for the Linux platform. Where did it go?" It's a shame. I was looking forward to seeing this package mature a bit more. Does anyone have info on what went wrong?

9 comments

  1. Re:Uhm... by entropi · · Score: 1

    thanks for the link and sorry for the redundancy; i must have missed the previous story.
    i thought that moonlight 3d was at least still listed on freshmeat until much more recently than the last time the question was asked, but i could be mistaken.

  2. Re:Uhm... by CentrX · · Score: 1

    And it was never answered.

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  3. Try This... by SaxMaster · · Score: 1

    Might want to try this site, Moonlight 3D Corner. I personally know nothing about the program. I just think it has a cool name :)

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  4. Old copy by AlexA · · Score: 1
    Here's what seems to be an (outdated) version of the web site that contains some very old sources/binaries of the program.

    From what I've seen, Moonlight 3D seems to create some very nice images. Does anyone have recommendations for 3D modeling/rendering programs that will produce images of a quality that's at least as good as Moonlight 3D?

    1. Re:Old copy by AlexA · · Score: 1

      Oh, and I just found this FTP site that actually has a newer version (0.90) of the program than that outdated site. I think it only has binaries though.

    2. Re:Old copy by AlexA · · Score: 1

      And it turns out Debian comes with version 0.5.3. You can get the Debian source for this package here.

    3. Re:Old copy by paRcat · · Score: 2

      Does anyone have recommendations for 3D modeling/rendering programs that will produce images of a quality that's at least as good as Moonlight 3D?

      Yes!

      Try Blender. While it's technically not a raytracer, it's rendering engine is still very capable. Look at the gallery on their site and be amazed. :)

      The learning curve is high, but if you're at all interested in this art form, try Blender! You can use it for animations and game development as well. And only 1.5M!


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  5. To fork or not by ksmeltzer · · Score: 1

    I myself would really like some closure on this one too. I guess this guy has not responded to anyone in quite some time. I have given serious consideration to heading up a free software 3D app effort, as most for Linux are lacking right now and it is the only thing binding me to keeping a windows system. I have pulled down all of the old copies I could find of the source but I cannot find that.9 source. This may be a perfect base to start a new project off of but if the developers are going to continue developing it then, I do not want to duplicate effort, as there is enough of that going on already. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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  6. Uhm... by AlexA · · Score: 2

    This question was already asked about a half year ago in here