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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 3D Professional
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Date: 9 Jun 90 05:56:04 GMT
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Have any of you out there gotten your hands on 3d Professional, from PP&S?
 
It;s a REALLY nice package...and runs quite well under 2.0 of AmigaDOS.  I
haven;t had a chance to play around with all of it;s functions yet, but it
appears to be very powerful.  I;ve been having the most fun with generating
X-Specs 3D renderings, using lots of textures and such...
 
So far I have only two complaints about it...the first, is it won;t let you
switch from its default 640x200 screen, which looks very blocky on the A1950
"14 Multisync.  The second one is no raytrace mode, though this is supposed to
be provided for later, as a "custom renderer"...one of the packages most
powerful features is that you can write your own renderer for it (similar to
RenderMan, but not as easily...you have to know C!)...it provides wireframe
(with or without hidden lines removed), solid (facet), Gourard, and Phong
renderers, and will even render fullscreen to the A2024 moniter (1008x800)...I
hope it will be compatible with the FireCracker/24 card.  It provides standard
compatibility with the Mimetics FrameBuffer, but this is a very limited board,
for display only...and it also provides compatibility for MicroIllusion;s
Photon Video Transport Controller.
 
Hmmm...I guess this one;ll keep me occupied until IMAGINE is released...and
that until Hash;s ANIMATION:Journeyman...oh, well.
 
Sean
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