LightWave / TVPaint / ImageFX on Sam440 videos

[Elwood]

Hello Classic Amigans,

I made these videos especially for you. I'm sure a lot of Classic owners think OS4 on Sam440 is something they wouldn't like.
I am quite sure of the contrary. So I decided to show you how some 68k programs perform on a Sam 667 Mhz.

Enjoy the videos:
LightWave on Sam440
TVpaint on Sam440
ImageFX on Sam440

They run inside the 68k emulation and they still run a lot faster than my A1260. Cool! :-)

[Elwood]

There are things called tripods.

:-) Not only. I would need to zoom to show some parts of the screen and it can't do it automatically.
I should hire an assistant then :-)

@Crom00
The rendering time depends on the settings, with/without shadows etc...
If you want me to try some settings, tell me and I'll render the animation.

@AmiDelf
I'll upload them somewhere for you. Will send you an email when done.

[Elwood]

How did you get Lightwave to open on such a large screen?  even in Winuae I can't get bigger than PAL resolution.  In the higher resolution, does the animation preview work?

I used the Prefs/Screens commodity of OS4 to force LW to open at this resolution.
Making the preview works but not playing it, but as the speed while it is created is close to the speed of the played preview it's not a big problem :-)

[Elwood]

Great videos. We can see that you controls LW & TVPAINT.

Really? I never use these 2 software. I have them only for testing purposes under OS4.

[Elwood]

@Crom00

Sorry for the delay.
In the meanwhile I switched from the Sam440ep 667Mhz running OS4.1 to a SamFlex 733Mhz running OS4.1.1.
With the Sam, Lightwave crashed after 1 hour of calculation. With the Flex, it runs with no crash. Maybe the amount of RAM and graphics RAM between the 2 machines made it to work perfectly, or it's the 68k emulation which improved in OS4.1.1

Anyway with the settings you gave me, the 200 images were rendered in 8 hours and 18 minutes (it's 2.5 minutes average).
Maybe someone with a 060 could try the same on his machine. The scene is here: http://elwoodb.free.fr/files/SpaceFightersTest

[Elwood]

Maybe you can use a screen promoter like the one included in OS4.
Check http://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/NewMode_V39

[Elwood]

What render mode did you use on your SAM?

PicassoII.
The screen which opens at this time (while rendering) is smaller than the current screen resolution. I suspect this is a 640x480 resolution.

[Elwood]

@klx300r

Sorry, I don't have a PM from you :-/ But I just sent you one with the reply.

@ral-clan

Let me explain better. In order to do the speed test Crom00 asked me, I didn't need to display the image on screen so I selected Picasso2. Like this the display is garbled when the image is displayed, but the IFF image which is saved on disk is perfect.

Now I tried to select these render settings:
- HAM6 and HAM8 works nicely. Both are displayed correctly thanks to the native modes of OS4 (they are called FakeNative modes).
- CyberGFX, it doesn't work as LW says "CyberGFX-preferences not found".