ACA 1221 accelerator: Who's got one?

[Djole]

Raytracing with any 68k (even 060) is a very slow process. On Amiga, in my opinion, Lightwave 3d is the most user friendly and most powerful 3d sw. There are a lot of LW tutorials on YT which will help you start with modelling and setting up scenes. But again, rendering anything on a 020 will take very,very long time even at very low resolutions. Back in the 1995 (with Appolo 060 66mhz) or so it took me weeks to render a few seconds at today's preview resolutions .

[Djole]

Obviously people managed to do raytracing even on an A500 with a 68000 and 1Mb. What is YT? It took you weeks "to render a few seconds"? Where do the seconds come in? It sounds like you mean some kind of animation. I never asked anything about an animation. I meant raytracing a single picture. This could be 320x200 in 4,096 colour HAM mode.

YT-Youtube....

I never said it cant be done, its just painfully slow. If you want to render single frames with not too much polygons and low resolution, sure you can do it on almost any machine.

[Djole]

Render time will depend on sw used, number of objects (number of polygons), textures, details used (reflections, transparency, refraction etc.), number of lights etc.... Having a FPU will speed up your render time with most 3d packages. So if you are planning to get an accelerator and use it for 3d rendering, try to find one with a FPU and a fastest CPU as possible. I would still recommend to start with LW 5 since you can find a lot of tutorials and learn from them. Real3d, Imagine, Cinema4d etc... are also ok but there are not that many tutorials around....LW has the best features also and is still around (not on Amiga of course....).


Ps.

The biggest problem with long (overnight) rendering is that you will in the morning see the mistake you have made in modeling or scene setup and have to start the render process all over again.... finding your Amiga has crashed the next morning