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From: [e-mail] (Daniel J. McCoy)
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Subject: Re: PLUG-INS:  What do you want?
Date: 31 Jan 1995 16:22:15 GMT
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In article <3gkhff$[e-mail]>,
John Gregor <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>In a previous article, [e-mail] (David Ingebretsen) says:
>
>>First. When you assume, you make an "ASS" out of "U" and "ME". Nowhere in
>
>David,
>
>We seem to have gotten off on, so to speak, the wrong foot.  Let us try
>again.  I didn't assume that you had an Amiga or anything else.  I was
>merely responding to the point about porting the plug ins to all platforms
>by mentioning that, wishful thinking aside, it simply isn't going to
>happen.  They will be primarily made for the platform with the largest user
>base, which will be the PC in very short order.  Someone posted an estimate
>of 3 days from the release of the PC version, which I believe is a bit
>quick, but it certainly won't be very long.

While I don't doubt that a great deal of plug-ins will be made Intel
specific, there is nothing stoping these plug-in developers from seeking
resources to compile the same plug-ins for other systems.  Hell.  I'd
volunteer to recompile/port to the Amiga with little or no charge at all and
let the parent company take any profit.  Like it or not, the Amiga has an
already existing installed base of Lightwave users that will hold off on
buying another system until something more powerful comes along.  Just
taking a look at the floating point performance of a PowerPC 601 compared to
a Pentium makes me hope NewTek comes out with a PowerPC version in the
near-distant future.  Those that want far more processing power than a
Pentium can provide will go for MIPS and Alpha systems simply to get the
work done faster.  You'll find out about "What to do while rendering 300+
frame animation in high quality..." as soon as you get Lightwave, even on
multitasking systems.  'Tis the reason why we have MIPS and Alpha based
systems.  :)  And WindowsNT, sad as it may be to some of us, will allow any
WindowsNT based rendering system to use the plug-ins with a simple recompile
if they're using Windows API calls.  It would be very shortsighted of the
plug-in developers NOT to try to get their plug-ins on multiple environments
simply because there ARE higher performance systems that people WILL use or
end up buying because they need to get the job done faster (to be able to
handle more jobs to get more money...  Cycle continues...).

I do this 3D stuff as a hobby (I'm insane!).  Those I DO know doing 3D work
professionally end up buying faster systems to allow them to not only do
more but to enable time consuming features of Lightwave to get that extra
quality (take a look at the difference between the first season of Babylon5
to the second and you'll notice a big difference.  Thank that to Screamers,
Raptors and Alpha based systems...).  If you end up doing 3D professionally
(if you're not already doing it already), you'll probably start thinking
about this too and would be terribly upset if you can't use the plug-ins in
those environments.
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Daniel J. McCoy                          BIX: dmccoy                 //
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