CompuServe Messages

Doug, I bought Playmation at SIGGRAPH, it's pretty neat, and the fact that it's a windows program had me intrigued, but a number of short-comings were apparent almost immeaditly: 1. The installation installs over 300 subdirectories, they even have one font that comsumes no less than 60 subdirectories. 2. No import or export to common industry file formats. 3. No 32 bit rendering so even the targa files are almost useless. Only only solid color backgrounds are available. 4. No interactive texture mapping, checking texture placement requires switching modules and rendering to 256 colors or shelling to DOS and running a command line renderer. Both of which are extremely slow. The list goes on, but it was a useful and inexpensive exercise in spline based modeling. James