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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Animation Package Information Request
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Date: 22 May 89 09:31:02 GMT
References: <10750@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <10750@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> glennl@cit-vlsi.UUCP (Glenn M. Lewis) writes:
>[]
>	I need to create an animation of a Steam Locomotive.  I need the
>wheels to rotate, [ handwave, handwave... ]
>The animation has to be one minute long (1800 frames).
>	Unfortunately, I have to have this finished in one month, and have
>it placed on Video Tape. I have an A1000 with 2 floppy drives and 2.5Megs RAM.
>I desperately need information on what Rendering/Animation software is
>available for the Amiga that would suit my needs.  [ ... ]

	Well, Sculpt-3D is right out for rendering, because it will take
longer than a month just to render the frames, and I'm also told that it's
a pig on memory.  You can still use it to create your objects, though.

	Silver will also probably be too slow for you (although they've got
a new version in the works which is supposed to be yet faster), and also
needs a fair amount of memory.

	Methinks you should look at Videoscape-3D and Modeller-3D.  You
won't be able to do any 400-line stuff with 2.5 Megs.  Doing HAM will also
be a squeeze.  Also, you should be able to get by with 15 frames per second
very nicely, which will cut the needed number of frames down to 900.

	Sounds to me like you have a big job ahead.  A month?  Dunno, guy.
But, hey, anything's possible if you're motivated enough (I managed to pull
an unicycle out of a hat in just under four days a long time ago).  If you'd
like a head start, I have a locomotive object which I created a while ago
for an animation that went over like a lead balloon.  Maybe you'd have
better luck with it.

	Good luck.

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