Subject: Re: Forge speed (was Re: Imagine and freelancing)
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 15:28:50 -0400
From: changc9@rpi.edu (Cedric Georges Chang)

On May 19,  9:51am, Dale R Rogers wrote:
> 	Maybe I have something set up wrong or my 030 is slow as hell, but
> 	it seems to take quite a while to render the textures in Forge.
> 	Agreed it's MUCH better than not having Forge; so I'm not
> 	bitching.  I'm just wondering if other people are getting screen
> 	updates much faster than I am.  When setting my textures I still
> 	have to walk away from the machine for 5 minutes or so and wait
> 	for the rendering to make a few passes.  I admit that I haven't
> 	read the entire manual so there may be a setting I need to adjust.
> 	Any ideas?

Forge isn't "realtime" as some posts seem to suggest.  After the 2nd pass
though, you should see enough to be able to figure out how you want to
change the parameters.  It doesn't take to long for the 2nd pass to be
completed.  On my '040 based Amiga, I do find myself staring at the preview
window waiting for it to complete all of the passes, but it's not too bad
a wait.

One way to speed things up is to use a smaller preview window.  Also, I find
that by dumping the preview to my 24bit board, I don't have to wait for the
final pass (and longest) pass; the extra colors make up for the lower
resolution.

Cedric

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Cedric Chang                Mechanical Engineer               // Commodore
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