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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:14:57 +0800 (SST)
From: Peter Bowmar <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Now... Screamernet Probs!
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Ok, well, image formats aside, now Screamernet is giving a little
trouble. The way it works is kinda cool, actually, and actually
completely lives up to my expectations about the way it should work (as
John Gross explained earlier this month...) Unless you have custom
plugins, it should work fine across SGI, Alpha, Intel and Amiga. Cool.
However, in practice, it's not a total snap to set up. The manual is
good, for step-by-step setup, but leaves out some important info.

For one thing, it neglects to tell you that the words "INIT" flipping
endlessly across the screen is not a fault, but actually telling you it's
OK. Also, you can't close the command window, so you have to stay logged
in (on NT) while it renders, so you can't really do a background render
like an SGI. No big deal, actually. You do have to go around and execute
a Screamernet program on every machine you want to render on, although if
you are good enough (I'm not) I can't see why you can't Telnet in from
one machine and do it through a script.

Aaaanyways, all that aside, it works fine and dandy on the venerable
Spacefighters scene (SPACEFIG.LWS for you PC-only people) but crashes out
on the new Hummer and SpaceLZ scenes. It flashes a really quick message
that I can't catch about An Error occured in LWSN.EXE and a long string
of numbers and it dies. Anyone got any ideas? Too bad about this, since
SN is otherwise really cool...

Be real careful about how you set up and name you network drives, though...

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