CompuServe Messages

yes, i have heard of this Fargo from Jodie Gebhard at Design Cad in the Bay Area and trying to get time to try it out…she is very impressed with it too. For preview printing to inhouse before sending large jobs out to Iris orlarge dye-subs or Offset; this must be a wonderful tool. The stereo cad walk thrus do indeed look hokey. The upper level software system requires a SPEA Graphics board(apparently has quality 3DS drivers) and it will import an intelligent .DXF from 3DS including the .TGAs and maps if .TGA but it does not cast shadows; which in my opinion is the meaning of Architecture (and any other quality Architect's: light/form/space/movement) But what i wanted was real time wireframe instantaneously and recordable in acad or 3DS, and thought this would be available on this lower end stereo cad product called "Realtime," but this requires their TI based cards and only allows "shaded" walkthroughs($900-$1800ish)…the wireframe walkthrough-what I would like for landmass, formal and spatial analysis is only available in the SPEA/ "RT Texture" line; and much more expensive; and then its one more exotic graphics board and there is no real quality to the textures so for a real (ie. beautiful, ie with light and shadow) design walk through you'd have to go back to 3DS anyway. They are developing the RT product for a graphics board independent version in Windows…but it sounds like a bit of a while off in the future. They say they have had no reports of bugginess you reported, with Virtus and from what i guess this may be related to their DXF reading problems(?what do i know about the reality underlying any of this stuff i am dependent on now instead of a paintbrush) Although I am surprised that Virtus hasn't gotten bugs out as that has been released for a while it seems in Windows. I remeber the .DXF was a late day feature developed for that first Virtus shipping…I didn't have time to try it, so i was very interested in your experience. I am afraid to ask, but do you have the latest release and what did Virtus say in response to your crash reports? Meanwhile I am going back to grab John La Luna's Matrox messages and get off of here…I have been missing alot up here over the last few weeks.