CompuServe Messages

Hey, even the people I know who have Renderman, aren't finding much use for it… 🙂 Sure, it makes great pictures, but one friend has the PC version, on a souped-up 386, with its own hard disk and a very nice high-res board, and he only bothers to make tiny 1/8 or 1/4 screen renderings because of the time it takes to make a picture. I've toyed with the idea of a Renderman output module for InterChange. It's possible, but I haven't had a single serious person ask for it. Hell, we've got Wavefront and Digital Arts two-way conversion modules, and a DXF output module, and the demand for them is quite slim. I'm convinced there's lots of people who feel better about the world, and about themselves, if they simply know that a product exists, or if they can tell someone that it exists. "Ah, yes, the Amiga has this Renderman-compatible 3D package." No matter that anyone really uses it… things are rosy because it exists.