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Re: pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software
« on: February 02, 2010, 08:38:08 PM »
CAD Technologies is still selling Imagine 5.0 for Amiga and supposed to be developing version 6. http://imaginefa.com/
 

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Re: pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 04:57:16 PM »
This is the link to the very last version for Windows, 2.19: http://www.imagine3d.org/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=13&lid=202
 

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Re: pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2010, 05:11:04 PM »
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No way were some of them done on the amiga, far too hires and unless imagine 4 up to current standards or a lot of photoshop donw aftwards ?


Check out these great tutorials from Imagine artist Lahl. She is able to achieve the most "state of the art" image quality with the software. http://members.iinet.net.au/~multispud22/lahl/tutorials/tutorials.htm

The problem with Imagine isn't the raytrace renderer; it's the software's workflow that is hopelessly obsolete vs. contemporary 3d applications.
 

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Re: pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2010, 12:01:28 AM »
Good luck! It will be a challenge to deal with the slow rendering speeds of Imagine on the Amiga vs. what you're accustomed to seeing with Lightwave on a modern pc.  

You can find some Imagine tutorial videos I produced back in the early 90's at Imagine3d.org, along with some great documentation like the I-Files Manual.
 

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Re: pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2010, 03:14:48 PM »
The Impulse rendering engine in both the Amiga and PC versions of Imagine were the same. I don't know whether the renderer was updated in later releases of Imagine for the Amiga. You will need to check the release logs over at CAD Technologies (http://www.imaginefa.com)

You can definitely achieve the same results as Lahl describes with the Amiga version, but it will take you longer to render each frame.