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- From: elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 05:34:47 GMT
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- On 24 Jan 1996 09:21:09 GMT, rlees@ix.netcom.com(Richard Lees ) wrote:
- >When I actually find a cool rendering program other then Lightwave
- >running on NT, maybe I'd consider something else. Next you'll tell me
- >you render with KPT Bryce or something. 10X? Hmm, sounds like an
- >exageration to me..
-
- Yeah, it was, it only renders 8.6 times faster (of course, that was on
- a system without the added 10-15% performance boost of Pipelined burst
- cache, so my original 10x figure may still be valid).
-
- >.And true 24bit output? Hmm, gee, A3000 = $350,
-
- Exactly where are you getting an A3000 with any sort of capabilities
- of using lightwave for $350, that I've gotta see to believe. Of
- course, we were comparing things to the speed of an a4000, NOT an
- A3000, might want to make that 40x faster rendering than the A3000
- (and a whopping 320x faster rendering for the Raptor 3, which would
- render in a little over a day what the A3000 would in a year).
-
- >OpalVision Board = $150 == $500 for true 24bit output. Hmmm. And what
-
- Funny, I don't remember lightwave having a "render to Opalvision"
- output option, unless they added it to the 4.0 Amiga version. You
- certainly aren't doing any sort of animation display with it though...
-
- >the hell does a CDRom have to do with Rendering? Doh!
-
- Absolutely nothing, I was simply pointing out that you get one thrown
- in and still have a lot of extra cash left in your pocket compared to
- the A4000. Unless of course you NEED the CD-ROM for your lightwave CD,
- your textures CD, you objects CDs, etc...
-
-
-
- Flat on my back in the middle of the Information Superhighway
-