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- > I have limmited acess to a Toaster 4000, but I'd like more time
- >to animate at my leisure. Do I need a whole Amiga Video Toaster setup to
- >run Lightwave, of can I purchase only the lightwave software.
- > I'd like to be able to aninimate over a long period of time on a
- >simple workstation, save my work on disk and transfer it to the big
- >Toaster 4000 to render and output it. Am I dreaming or is such a thing
- >possible?
- > In other words, whats the bear minimum I need to run Light Wave?
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- > Scott
- > loarie@crl.com
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- The "bear" minimum? Hmm.. that's a grizzly question ;)
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- Standalone LightWave 3.5 will run on just about any Amiga but
- to avoid a lot of hair-ripping and chanting of very bad words [tm]
- you should probably have at least:
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- 1. an AGA Amiga, viz: a 1200 or 4000 (although a 2500 or 3000 will do)
- 2. at least 10 Meg of RAM. More is better.
- 3. at least a fast 030/882 combo, with an 040 preferred
- 4. plenty of hard drive storage. Just to install LightWave 3.5 on a hard
- drive will eat about 10 Meg of space. Each RGB (IFF24) or Framestore
- image it saves is about 1 Meg in size. So figure accordingly.
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- Remember that the more complex your scenes become, the more RAM they'll
- take to render and the longer they'll take to render.
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- If pressed, you *could* create LW scene files on a someone less
- capable Amiga, render single frames as test images, then move the
- scene files over to the 4000/Toaster for final rendering & output
- as you suggested. It just depends on what your goal/job is, and
- what you have at hand to work with, time deadlines, client demands
- and so on.
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- Harv
- harv@cup.portal.com
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