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- On Sat, 8 Oct 1994, Ernie Wright wrote:
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- > Re little windows that show the effects of various settings: Maybe
- > they're useful. I know people like them, but there are good reasons
- > not to. They're an educational toy rather than a production tool.
- > They slow everything down and make the interface more complex. And
- > they're usually not very accurate.
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- Whatever happened to a product being "fun to use?" And what is it slowing
- down other than adjusting the actual setting? Accuracy isn't really the
- issue. I thought lightwave was supposed to be a product that was easy to
- use and intuitive. Since concepts like specularity and diffuse don't have
- much meaning to the person not doing 3D modeling, a representation of
- what would happen if youchanged those settings would be helpful (in MY
- opinion).
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- > Re color representations of image maps: This suggestion ignores the
- > space and time constraints of existing display hardware. The way to
- > remember which image is what is to give each one a distinctive name
- > based on its purpose or content.
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- Hardware constraints! We're talkin' Amigas here. The Amiga had 4096
- colors when the PC would was struggling with 16. You're telling me that
- it's not possible to show a color thumbnail on a system that it known for
- the superiority of its display capabilities??? I have a hard time with this.
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- Lightwave is good. But unless it is not the defacto standard in rendering
- software. It is in competition with other packages. Not giving people
- what they can find and like in other packages is in MY opinion, as
- serious case of short sightedness.
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- Carl
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