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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Siggraph Report?
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.170154.18409@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 20 Aug 90 17:01:54 GMT
References: <1990Aug11.022017.29661@agate.berkeley.edu> <45986@masscomp.ccur.com>
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In article <45986@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@masscomp.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>n article <1990Aug11.022017.29661@agate.berkeley.edu> eddiewen@ocf.berkeley.edu
> (Eddie Wen) writes:
>>Hey, has anyone gotten back from Siggraph?  Any word of Hash Enterprise's
>>JourneyMan, supposedly debut.
>
>Well I saw it and was quite impressed. The ease with which it allowed
>control over the objects and their motion was stunning.
>The only current weakness I see in the program is its renderer. Although
>it produces adequite results, there are not the mind-blowing features
>of LightWave 3D.

Martin (Hash) has already made improvements to the renderer.  The version
I had at SIGGRAPH was the one just prior to release.  I believe the 
current version is 1.08.  I would expect the first major upgrade in the
next few weeks.  We are adding procedural textures, and many other features.
This is evolving software, and what you saw was only the first version.

>mentioned it would be nice to use Jouneyman for the modeler and animator
>while sending the rendering task to LightWave 3D. He said there had been
>some discussion about that but no real plans had been formulated.

The problem is that LightWave3D only does polygons, so our spline objects
won't work.  Also, it doesn't handle texture maps the same way.  However,
we are hoping to support the Video Toaster.  We have had extensive
discussions with NewTek about it, and they seemed interested.  All we
are the tools to get the job done.  If you think Toaster support in
JMan is important, let NewTek know, it might speed up the process.

>it looked like a great product and I was so excited, I forgot to ask when
>it would hit the streets (however I got the impression it will be quite soon).

It started shipping the week of SIGGRAPH, 2 weeks ago.

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