IBM Animation?
Recording a playback yes, but I *KNOW* you aren't rendering to tape in real
time.. So I'll assume thats what you meant..
DOs machines are not tied to custom chips like the amiga is.. 3d studio
will render in anything from as low as 320×200 256 colors to 2048×2048
16.8million colors and it will animate in those resolutions as well. You
see, 3D studio is a product of the same company as AutoCad and as such uses
the same format for display drivers…. AutoCad (more copies out there than
amigas probably) is so popular that companies designed entirely new video
boards just for it… In fact I think I remember seeing 4096×4096 video
board and monitor combo's…
As far as people like you/me… we could probably afford a $500 video
display device if we were serious about 3D… That would buy you a card
capable of 800×600 16.8million colors or 1280×1024 256 colors… Those are
true colors too.. NTSC is only a few million…
Hardware/Software wise the DOS platform is now pretty far ahead… However
the amiga is a little more fun to produce on, and also adapts to video
easily so that is why the 3d market is one of the stronger points of the
amiga…. In fact with 040 boards and the a4000 I'm sure a lot of
professionals will stick with the amiga whereas prior to that they would
have been forced to switch to dos/mac machines just because of the
incredible speed boost you get with an on-board FPU….
Joe Flanagan
A&a Printers