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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Imagine (?) - support for x-specs rendering?
Message-ID: <5045@crash.cts.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:09:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct13.211837.3018@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <1990Oct13.211837.3018@uncecs.edu> paleo@uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha) writes:
>
>OK.  You folks that HAVE imagine -- does it have support for
>doing paired renderings for x-specs +- automagically a-la
>silver-SV, or do I need to get silver-SV as well (I have T.S.)

No. Impulse took x-specs support out of Imagine. You'll need Turbo Silver
SV if you want to make x-specs stereo 3D pictures.  You could kludge 
it via Imagine, though, by rendering a picture, moving the camera 
slightly (with the same target) and rendering another view and then
merging the two into a single stereo picture with the M3D program that
comes on the X-Specs software disk.  Certainly not as easy as doing it
in one pass with TS-SV though.

>
>Also, can objects be moved back and forth between Silver and
>Imagine?
>
Silver objects will import into Imagine. However it's a one-way street.
Imagine objects will not load into Silver. Imagine's object file format
contains some bits that Silver won't understand (due to new features
in Imagine which weren't in Silver.. such as mapping multiple textures
to the same object, etc.)

However, you can upgrade your Silver to Silver SV and then also upgrade
to Imagine but still get to keep SV, the way Mike @ Impulse explained
it, they're two separate products and you don't have to give up SV when
you "upgrade" it to Imagine.  Call Impulse for the straight poop.





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