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Subject: Re: Essence 1 and 2
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X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! BBS v1.21i
From: bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 95 08:05:05 EST
Organization: The NEW Graphics BBS * +1 908/469-0049 * Piscataway, NJ USA
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In an article, cjohnson@crl.com writes:
> I purchased the Essence tectures and Forge last year. I have to say that
> I found the product to be a dissapointment. While Forge does a great job
> of rendering textures, the time needed to create them is ridiculous.
> Also as far as creating seamless textures, it doesn't do a very good job.
>
> I am a die-hard Amiga user, but I find Kai's Power Tools on the mac to be
> a much better product at a much lower cost. (Of course you still have to
> buy a Mac.) KPT generates a wide variety of seamless textures. It also
> does then in much less time than on the Amiga for the same bitmap size.
> Both my Amiga and Mac have the same speed '040 procerssor. I do all my
> texture creation on the Mac.
Kai's Power Tools as well as KPT Bryce are both available for the PC. It
seems more reasonable to get the PC verson of LightWave and do all your work
on that these days. I understand however that Newtek is negotiating with
different software publishers to license various filter/texture plug-ins for
4.0.
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