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#3d Max/Rendering Engine

    11-Aug-95 23:51:58
Sb: #3d Max/Rendering Engine
Fm: Peter K. Watje 74453,225
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Did Autodesk at Siggraph mention anything about the rendering engine that would be shipped with THE MAX. The press release mentions that the rendering engine would be open architecture but that was about it. I assume that all the HDI stuff is just for previewing and not for actual rendering (is this right?). Is raytracing going to be included? In the gif of the Material Editor their did not seem to be any options for any index of refraction or other raytracing type parameters. Is this a sign that the render engine will still be ZBuffer type engine with no built in raytracing capabilities? Peter W. Spectral Imaging