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Particle FX

    14-Nov-94 01:53:01
Sb: #1743-Particle FX
Fm: sanford kennedy 73201,1374
To: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
Jim, I have a 496 66 with 20 meg ram and two 500 meg hard drives. Windows for Workgroups. I am rendering a flythrough of a a city in D1 Photo, anit-aliased quality. I have twenty figures in one scene using figure substitution. I tried rendering 30 frames, and after 18 hours, I shut the machine off and went back to 3D studio. That program took 28 minutes per frame at 756 X 486, but then I decided to dump the project for now. The 3D S file I ended up with was 2.85 megs. The glass textures don't look good in 3D Studio, but it is much faster than A.M. I will prepare a bench test of the scene in both programs and upload the results. Sanford