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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 22:36:43 GMT
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- >>Imagine 4.0 is released on Amiga, Lightwave 4.0 is too, Caligari was crap
- >>anyway. How about Cinema 4-D, Real 3D v 3, Raystorm etc.. new products.
- >>
-
- >Imagine 4.0 and Real 3d are jokes... Imagine 4,0 hasn't been improved much
- >since the past year... So has any of the other products... And you try to
- >compare it to Caligari ..Can Imagine 4.0 or Real 3D allow you to do
- >"non-wireframe" modelling... Nope... At least Caligari Truespace (on the
- >PC) gives you 3DR acceleration. Its sure a lot faster than any Amiga product
- >I've seen.
- What?? Real3D is not a joke. Real solid modelling and it even offers a
- physically based model of specularity so that everything doesn't look
- like plastic (that said, ironically they didn't put in the last paramter in
- the model so it's actually a bit hard to get truly accuarate plastic because
- the specular reflections take on the color of the object and can't be made
- reflect all wavelengths of the light source equally). Imagine is a bit behind
- the times and has often sufered from terrible bugs. At one time though, it was
- state of the art (a time when MAC and PCs didn't have squat).
-
- >If the almighty Amiga apps are so great, why haven't I heard much from
- >them... In the REAL 3d World, everyone's talking about SoftImagine and 3D
- >Studio Max for NT... I don't give a fuck about platform loyalties or
- You also need ten million megabytes of memoery to run 3D software on NT.
-
- >OSes..Sure, there is no doubt that Lightwave WAS good.. Thats all over now
- >(for the Amiga scene). Time is money..I've worked with Amiga Lightwave, Mac
- >Strata, and SGI Alias.. I see more development and powerful tools on the
- >PC.. Not macs, not Amigas.
- Only for the short interim between the fall of CBM and the new RISC Amigas
- (although with all the acutions and sell offs and possible plans to turn it
- intomore a generic hardware piece...).
-
- > I'm selling off my SGI rR4400 200 Mhz Workstation so I can run SoftImagine
- > on
- >the PeeCee... I even see a lot of Workstation owners taking a serious look at
- > the PC NT platform for work. Once, I see Lightwave catch up to SoftImagine,
- PC's have poor floating-point performance and NT requires extra gobs of
- memory that 3D users need.
-
- >>The Cybervision 64 will easily perform the Graphic modes you mention, i'll
- >>be buying one soon.
-
- >Oohhh.. Sure,, Like it can do 1600x 1600 at 24 bits.. Again, does this card
- >support new APIs like Open GL, 3DR.. Does it have support for Full motion
- >Mpeg and soon DVD.. Can it render faster than a SONY playstation or Sega
- >Saturn??
- No, which is why I hope it isn't picked for the PPC Amigas.
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