Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!qiclab!techbook!waynekn From: waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: JourneyMan Message-ID: <1991May31.170011.14486@techbook.com> Date: 31 May 91 17:00:11 GMT References: Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 38 James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes: >Perhaps what Hash Enterprises needs to do is to put together a video tape of >their software in action. The claim has been made that while the rendering ... We are putting together such a tape. The only question is to as if we will let it out before Siggraph or not. The animation/rendering is all finished. Also a word about render. I think our render is getting very good. While there is no real "state of the art render" for the Amiga, yet, there are some that are getting pretty good. However there is a big difference between our render and everyone else's (at least on the Amiga.) We render spline surface patches, not polygons or simple shapes. Therefore if you compare our render on very simple shapes we are going to lose. But if you try to render a complex shape modeled with spline patches, the tables turn. First, we can do more complex things because to use polygons requires vastly more rendering surfaces. Many of our characters just couldn't be model with polygons with Amiga software. (PIXAR has done very complex polygon models, so it can be done, but it requires a LOT of computer to do it.) Most of the comments about the renderer relate to people comparing it at the lowest level, and not for the level of rendering it is written for. Another issue is that every little change in the modeling software seems to impact the rendering. However, we have now frozen the modeling with version 1.3 of Animation:Jouneyman. (At least until we go to 2.0.) So now the render has caught up with the modeler. However, I think our tape of "Joyride" will speak for itself. It is now being single framed. So just hold in there.... Wayne Knapp -- waynekn@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}techbook!waynekn Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks