CompuServe Messages

John: Lightscape is an animation program but the main purpose for its existence is the radiosity renderer. Camera moves are the only thing you can animate with the product as a moving object would require the whole scene to be re-solved for radiosity. This would take many hours and would be impractical. For architectural walkthrough's there isn't a problem. Once a scene is solved for radiosity then rendering is a few seconds per frame. Don't forget though anything rendered with this program could be used as a background to objects rendered in 3DS. >> Radiosity is a more realistic lighting model for rendering right? << Absolutely! Makes raytracing look like Flat shaded. Lightscape does raytracing also by the way. >> It's cool that everyone's going NT! << Zakly! NT products were everywhere. >> how about MicroSoftimage NT? What's it like? << I checked out the booth but I was overpowered by hype. They had a booth and a demo/show which was a waste of time, a couple of actors against a blue screen. I know the product can do great things but their show did nothing to let me know how or why. As far as its NT version, dunno. I had to bail their booth, I heard it is still a long way from being ready. – Bob Ritger