#Upgrades.
I took the plunge and bought Playmation…
Ok, ok, it's a really cool program, and yes I am hooked already, and yes I
would like to know what it costs to upgrade from Windows version 2 to Animaster
for Windows? In that vein, what enhancements are planned for a Windows NT
version or Chicago, and since I have access to both, should I wait for one of
those versions?
Question 2: What products are available out there to take advantage of the
shadow buffering features. I think I can get away without too much interaction
between the characters and their immediate surroundings if I just manage to
have them cast shadows. This would seem to speed rendering up a lot. I
watched the tutorial fish thing go through its paces, and it took over two
hours on my 486/66. One thing I noticed is that the fish didn't take very long
to render, it was the background image that ate up the time. Yet I couldn't
see where the background was affected too much by the fish going by. Also, the
bottom half of the fish looked chopped off, did I make some typical neophyte
mistake?
Question 3: What hardware did you guys use to get the animations from that
wonderful demo tape onto video. I thought that was really well done, and the
quality was accepatable for the kinds of things I am interested in doing.
Thanks for a great program, AD