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- From: wagsch@br.homeshopping.com.br (Wagner Schieber)
- Subject: Re: What are the diffs between LW4.0/Imagine/C4D/R3D/Reflections ... ?
- Message-ID: <4073.6668T1138T468@br.homeshopping.com.br>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:47:02 GMT
- References: <19960328.E057640.12B8B@hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Wagner Schieber - Multimedia Solutions
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-
- Hi!
-
- On 28-Mar-96 17:50:33, starecjc@hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de wrote:
- > Because i'm absolutely new in the subject (rendering...3d-gfx...) i want
- > to ask some of you what are the (essential) differences between this
- > gfx-programs...what are the minimal configs one needs to work (seriously)
- > with each one?
-
- > Which one of this programs is fastest/gives the best results and so on ?
-
- > I want to choose a program for doing some 3D-Animations (or rendering) that
- > also runs fine with only 4 megs of fastram on an A1200 with 030/40mhz and
- > 882/50mhz fpu...LW seems to be a memhog to me and what i've seen from
- > imagine so far i don't like it's user-interface very much...(sh*tty
- > configuration and system-nonconform gadgets etc...)...
-
- Ok, I've read what the LightWave/Imagine guys have said. I've used both
- Imagine (for more than 1 year) and LightWave (for some 3 years) and then
- I moved to Real3D (by the end of '94).
-
- All of them have their pros and cons, but there's one thing you must know
- on 3D software: you need powerful hardware and lots of memory to do any
- serious work. So, if you want your work to compete with the other guys,
- my first suggestion is to get a new machine to work with. If you can
- afford, a Pentium 120+Mhz with 32Mb RAM would be excellent. If you can
- not afford a new machine, try getting at least some extra 4Mb Fast RAM
- for your A1200. That's about the same configuration I have on my A500
- (2Mb Chip/8 Mb Fast, '030/40Mhz, '882/40Mhz). With this configuration,
- you can run any 3D software with an acceptable ammount of memory to make
- simple projects.
-
- Now for the software question. Let me assemble a little table to compare
- LightWave, Imagine and Real3D (based on how they perform on my A500):
-
- -----------------------------------------------
- LightWave 4.0 Imagine 4.0 Real3D 3.11
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rendering Speed *** **** **
- Rendering Quality **** **** *****
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ease to Learn ***** *** **
- Ease to Use **** *** ****
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Modeling Features *** **** *****
- Animation Features *** **** *****
- Rendering Features **** **** ****
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Third-Party Support ***** *** ****
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- TOTALS (sum) 31 29 31
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- As you can see, they're almost equal. Imagine lose by 2 points because
- of it's weird interface and also because of the lack of third-party
- support. Then you may ask why I chose Real3D, if it's tied up with
- LightWave and almost everybody uses LightWave. The answer is simple: I
- don't care too much about what people are using (If I did, I would be
- using a PC in the first place), and I also think that built-in features
- and rendering quality are far more important than ease to learn and
- rendering speed. A software with less features is always easier to
- learn. And you can boost speed with hardware, but the same is not
- applicable to quality.
-
- I hope that helps.
-
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