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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: LightWave Question...
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Date: 27 Nov 90 18:18:49 GMT
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In article <5820@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>PLEASE, someone with a Toaster out there answer this:
>        "Particle systems with variable motion blur"
> 
>        Have any of you played with this feature????  And if so, how
>        were your results?  How about render times?

I have not done anything with it yet, but what I know about it is
that Lightwave only performs motion blur on single point polygons,
ie. particles. This feature has some sort of intended future purpose
but as of yet, the software does not exploit it. In the mean time,
if you have an object defined by gazillions of 'particles', you can fling
them about at high speeds and watch them blur...oooooohhh! I'll play around
with it tonite, but I'm not expecting much.
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