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- From: hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de (Hans-Joerg Frieden)
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- Subject: Re: Redering software recommendation
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 08:56:37 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Trier
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- Frank McCormick (mcfrank@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote:
- : Can anyone recommend (or compare) the various commercial rendering
- : packages for the Amiga for me.
- :
- : For at least the next 6 months I am stuck with my trusty A500 with
- : a GVP A530 Turbo -- so my hardware is limited to a 40MHz '030
- : with 10 Meg of RAM.
- I use Cinema 4d V3.1. IMHO one of the best packages available, since it
- is quite unexpensive and really does a _LOT_ of things...
-
- : Reviews always seem to compare/contrast the various features and image
- : quality, but never get around to mentioning rendering speed and
- : memory utilization.
- Memory usage is very efficient... I have 7 megs and I didn't have much
- problems... When there's not enough memory, you can start the raytracer
- by itself, without the modeller, and thus save a _lot_ of memory...
- Rendering speed is quite OK, it could be faster of course, but there are
- many options to speed up things (generally, the more memory you have, the
- faster it will go...). My "Battlestar Galactica"-Type Viper ship will
- render in 10 minutes on a 2000/030/25MHz+FPU with 7 Megs of memory in
- 320x240. A formula one car did render in 20 minutes in 640x480 with a lot
- of reflections...
-
- : Since I have a limited amount of memory, a full featured package that
- : would require 32 Meg of RAM for a non-trivial scene is completely useless
- : to me.
- As is said, Cinema4d is very efficient with memory... And it really has a
- great GUI and a very good modeller...
-
- Regards, Hans-Joerg.
-
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- Hans-Joerg Frieden Schloss-Strasse 176 54293 Trier Germany
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