Subject: Imagine Mis-features
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 16:16:38 CDT
From: wilks@lbm.com (Stephen Wilkinson)

Foivos Kourendas <foivos@theseas.ntua.gr> "remarked:"

[enthusiastic problem statement snipped]
> 	NOT to mention..-ONCE AGAIN-..that IMPULSE is heading to the
> FALSE way.  It really wants to be a two clones company BUT..it could
> just TAKE UP THE ADVANTAGES of each platform and use them.THAT IS THE
> WAY it can make the REALL profit from such an INCREDIBLE prog which in
> AMIGA side uses less than NOTHING from AMIGADOS magic!!!

I just got 3.0 here in Oklahoma. It's amazing, but I can't help noticing 
a few things. 1) No AREXX. As a programmer, I know that AREXX can be
a relatively easy thing to put in a program. Why didn't Impulse?
2) ASL Support. This would have been TRIVIAL to add. Why didn't Impulse?
3) There is a sidebar in the Detail Editor section of the (quite nice)
manual stating that TIFF and TGA files cannot be loaded by the Amiga
version of Imagine. Why? Did the code not compile on the Amiga? NetPBM
does fine on my machine. Very odd. I can't figure this one out.

BTW, Bones is great. I can't quite get my head around particles, but
they seem neat too. And as a non-Essence person, I find the 100 or so
textures that came with 3.0 a REAL bonus... Great stuff (Gas Giant is
super!). Oh, BTW, that leads to 4) All the textures are named in 8.3
notation: "RdDthStr" why not "RadialDethStar"?? I've got room on the 
Amiga?? I don't have to type the name, just click on it, so It's not
a "help the user" feature. Surely more characters couldn't be hard to
do?? And finally, it looks like the Texture.txt and other doc files
would be well-suited for AmigaGuide. Any takers?

     BTW, those math libraries sped up my '40 about DblTrans
267 -> 46 sec and MathTrans 103 -> 54 but not very much on my 3000
at home.

Stephen "I-gotta-work-on-Memorial-Day-so-I'm-grumpy" Wilkinson
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