Unity3D Indie now free!

[Dave Buchhofer]

I've been using this for a few weeks now since i'd bought the PRO version, and it is pretty damn wonderful in terms of asset pipelines. with a very active and extremely helpful/giving community, and open access to the developers to a similar point as vray

 

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/10/29/a-free-unity/

 

I think this definitely puts it in the front running of choices to evaluate for arch work as you can work/learn up pretty rapidly, with the option to "buy up" to the pushbutton realtime AO/Soft Shadows/full screen shaders in the pro version.