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From: her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Imagine 1.0 bugs and comments
Message-ID: <1300@compel.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 08:11:49 GMT
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Organization: Compel, Copenhagen, DK
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denbeste@etnibsd.UUCP (Steven Den Beste) writes:

>Comparisons to "Silver": As best I can determine, Imagine replaces Silver,
>it doesn't augment it. There doesn't appear to be anything Silver does that
>Imagine doesn't do better, faster and much, much easier!

As far as I can see the "FOG" feature is missing from TS, I've never used it
so it may not be a big loss...
Also the 3D possibilities found in TS 3.01 SV is missing.

I agree that Imagine has a much better "detail editor" than TS.
The stage editor with its action screen is MUCH better than the film strip
found in TS. 
I haven't yet found any uses for the "forms editor", any help/good ideas 
would be greatly appreciated.

In general I am very satisfied with the user interface for Imagine.

HOWEVER:
  I have until now tried to create two pictures with Imagine, and NEITHER
  did work.
  The first one was the last example from the tutorial manual, which didn't
  look correct in trace mode.

  The other was a much simpler picture:
  I wanted to create a reference picture showing how specular reflection and
  hardness worked in different combinations, so I created a scene consisting
  of 50 perfect spheres with different settings for these parameters.
  This scene couldn't run because of lack of ram on my 3mb B2000.
  I then tried with 40 and 30 spheres and 3 mb was still not enough!

  Finally I reduced the scene to 18 spheres grouped together into one object;
  this scene could render (at least in scanline mode), but only half of the
  spheres did show up (one of the spheres was not rendered fully, only the
  central part of it was visible).

  The number of visible spheres is dependent on the order that I group the 
  spheres together!!

  All this was in scanline mode, I haven't yet had time to try it in
  trace mode (no 68881/68882 you know :-( )

  Has anyone experienced this kind of problem??

  Can it really be correct, that it is impossible to trace 30 perfect 
  spheres on a machine with 3mb RAM?????

Helge
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