#R4 Fast Preview
Gary,
I saw several OpenGL savvy 3D cards at Comdex this past week, some were only
prototypes, not all used standard hardware. It looks to me that this will be
the way to implement features like Fast Preview with any degree of usefulness.
With everything still in turmoil, I'm holding off on my Pentium purchase until
after NAB. Also, last week at the SGI authoring conference the Silicon Studio
people were explicit in pointing out that the only path to the PC platform for
the Keystone and Firewalker developement environments would be OpenGL chips on
graphics display or accelerator cards.
I hope that with R-5 Adesk is allowing you more manuevering room to to set the
core feature set. I get the distinct impression from reading between he lines
of the threads here that corporate took some creative control out of your hands
in order to ship a revenue generating product by an arbitrary timeline. There's
enough value packed in to R-4 so that no lasting harm is done. But it wasn't
all that long ago that you stole this market away from a sleeping and greedy
Crystal/GSL . There are able competitors out there just waiting for a mis-step
to exploit.
Bruce N. Goren