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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: I received my LightWave 4.0 Upgrade
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 08:21:25 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
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- In-reply-to: dkm@col.hp.com's message of 19 Jan 1996 15:09:22 GMT
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- dkm@col.hp.com (David K Martin) wrote:
-
- > I have it! Received my Amiga LightWave 4.0 upgrade package yesterday
- > (Jan 18)! Not bad for having ordered it last June I guess. In the
-
- I got mine a few days ago too. It looks like a nice upgrade. Finally
- one can run Modeler and Layout in halfway tolerable resolutions (I'm
- using 1280x1024, which modeler takes full advantage of, but layout only
- uses 1024x768 of the 1280x1024 screen).
-
- > A short pamphlet describing "The Special Effects Brushing
- > Engine Plug-in for LightWave 3D". Looks like this can create
- > some cool effects.
-
- But alas, not on the Amiga. That thing is PC only.
-
- Also, the feature to draw different object wireframes in different
- colors is only available on the PC, as well as a few other similar
- features. I'm not sure why, as I'm running LW in a 256 color high res
- mode. Sigh. They seem not to have discovered ObtainBestPen() yet.
-
- > everything except the 58M of images used a little over 30M of hard disk
- > space. A lot of this seems to be duplicates of what came with LW 3.5
- > but there is a lot of new stuff also.
-
- Yep. Render the Hummer scene if you get a chance - pick a frame fairly
- near the end of the anim. It is very nice!
-
- > very nice. When using the Picasso under LW 3.5, wireframe objects
- > wouldn't display properly. This appears to have been fixed with 4.0.
-
- Yep, they fixed their gfx card support. Its far from perfect (layout
- still only uses 8 colors, max, unlike the PC version), but at least it
- runs properly, which it didn't used to do.
-
- - steve
-