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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24-bit Sculpt Joke
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Date: 21 Sep 90 22:36:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu

 
Where'd you get this idea???
 
Sculpt has gotten more than it's fair share of sales in the Amiga community. 
Sales slacked off because their product can't hack it anymore.  The Mac owners
are just used to paying high prices...so in a sense, they're Byte's stooges.
 
Sculpt on the Mac does *very* little more than the Amiga version.  It's $1500
where it can be picked up for about $89 on the Amiga.  Does it texture-map,
bump-map (or any mapping for that matter?), have soft shadows, support
spline-based movements?  The list can go on an on.  Turbo Silver, although
harder to use, has ALWAYS had better output than Sculpt.
 
You would see the same is true if you compared Sculpt to the other Mac
renderers on the market.  Even though they don't compare with what's available
on the Amiga (except for maybe MacRenderMan), they all beat Sculpt on features
and output.
 
Sorry to flame, but Byte-Me has done nothing impressive since they first
introduced S/A4D...it's stagnated, and other companies have picked up where
they left off.
 
Sean
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