CompuServe Messages

>> your use of the SGI sounds interesting. Do you use it mostly for pure animation or effects animantion? I often look lustfully at those systems and would love to try one out. Is the interface really that daunting? << I don't really use them to do productive works so that I probably not the right person to answer this question. My company is developing software tools and I use these tools on various plateforms to know the general feeling, main UI, usefulness, and their strength and weakness. Yes, most SGI software that I used are for 3D animation and modeling. They (at least for the software packages that I've played with) all offer a lot of options/parameters in a few floating palettes or dialog boxes for you to adjust almost everything. When you get to know each parameter's meaning, it is very convinient. However, it needs more education time to get familar with. What I means is that they don't guide you through the hierachy of menus and dialog boxes. Anyway, they look quite professional with a lot of switches, edit boxes, spin boxes, and buttons. May be this is exactly what they want and which people like, professional lookings. –Vince, Ulead Systems (writing on 1995 February 02) MCI Mail: EMS: ULead, 522-0621 MBX: VChen @ ultc1 VChen%Ulead@mcimail.com or VChen@ulead.com