3D Software

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JaXanim wrote:
If I'd got Three choices, they would be:

1.LightWave 3D
2.LightWave 3D
3.LightWave 3D

I'd be a travesty if LightWave didn't come back to its place of birth.

I seriously doubt a Lightwave port will occur for the Amiga One.   First of all though Newtek has done paid ports before (SUN), Amiga Inc has no money so there is no financing for it, and frankly its not in Hyperions interest to fund  it (since they are doing Real 3D) and I dont think Eyetech can/will fund it either.   Its possible that the MorphOS port of Aladdin could be moved over, but there would have to be significant sales of OS 4.0, to convince the principals that its a money making proposition to make the effort worthwhile,
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Hooligan_DCS wrote:

Its possible that the MorphOS port of Aladdin could be moved over

MorphOS port of Aladdin? The first time I heard that.

Amazing the things I post and am probably not supposed to when its late at night  :-)  .
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mbilla wrote:


Well that was the Amiga version. HAve you ever looked at the actual version of Real 3D??? There's a demo available for Win PCs.
It has many many features and the rendered pictures are some of the best I have seen (see the galery on the homepage).
REAL 3D is a real raytracer where as the other progs are calculating the images by preset methods.
You can see this with pictures with lot of different glasses and lights.

I'm sorry, virtually everyone raytraces these days and have for quite a long time.  Are you reading really old docs or are people really telling you this.   Lightwave won the technical award this year for the Emmys, as well as being used for the special effects in 7 of the 9 nominees in the two catagories and both of the eventual winners.  Last year all the nominees were lightwave based.   Comparing Real3D to lightwave 3D is pretty unfair to Real 3D, as would comparing either of the other 2 major 3D programs or even 3DS Max to it.  
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SyrTran wrote:
Lightwave is one of the reasons I use this XP box.

Lightwave is the reason I bought my first windows box, and basically never looked back for 3D work.  I still remember that Pentium 100 rendering frame after frame 10X faster then my stock 040 4000 the day it came in and realizing that there was no way I was going to be able to go back to 1/10 the speed for my 3D work.  

Do any of the Morphos/Pegasos owners also use Lightwave on an Amiga?  You could try Screamernet and let us know how well it works.

I've had a copy of Amiga Lightwave 5.0 running on Wayne's Pegasos under MorphOS, if I get a chance I'll see if we cant try Screamernet on it over this long weekend.   Am I going to have to put an old version of my intel version on a PC, or will Screamernet from 7.5 talk to Amiga 5.0 screamernet??   I may have never tried a mixed version screamernet before.
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