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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: <1301@compel.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 11:34:06 GMT
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Organization: Compel, Copenhagen, DK
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>>[Stuff deleted] 
>>   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!!
>>[Stuff deleted] 

Latest news: The scene works PERFECTLY in trace mode, so the bug must be in the
scanline code. It is possible that I can render the 40 sphere scene in 
trace mode; I haven't tried that one yet...

Until now, I have one scene which work in trace mode but not in scanline 
mode, and another scene which work in scanline mode but not in trace mode..
I think that I'll have to write to Impulse soon...
It looks like the real error is in the version numbering, the current version
must be 0.95 and not 1.0 :-) :-)

RIDOUT@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil writes:
>I tried to do a simple picture of three chess pieces.  A King, Queen and a
>pawn.  Each rendered seperatly in the same scene work fine.  However when
>I put all three in the scene I get a very dark picture with only part of one 
>piece visible.  I haven't figured it out yet.  Sounds like a bug!  I don't get
>any memory complaints.

Was this in trace mode or what? I haven't seen any changes in the background
colors. The only errors I have seen is missing or distorted objects.

Well, apart from the errors, I still think that Imagine is a very good 
product, I'm looking forward to trying the F/X stuff.

Helge
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