CompuServe Messages

After a few false starts I have Animation Master Running well under Warp. But why you may ask? I often have the need to render multiple batches of animations, sometimes executing a program to alter textures or other attributes within the files [thank you HASH for providing ASCII files and at least some documentation!!!] between each run. Doing this in Windows is impossible (or at the very least a real pain). And doing this via the DOS RENDER24 program leaves my machine useless for hours (or longer). Well, I thought, if OS/2 is supposed to run DOS programs so well (including DOOM II), maybe it can run the RENDER24. So I made the investment in OS/2 (reluctantly) and after some false starts I can report that OS/2 can indeed run Render24! I also created a small batch file that allows multiple DOS Renderings to occur simultaneously and still do a Windows rendering (multiple Windows rendering is also easily done). It does slow down the rendering some if it is placed in the background, but in the foreground the speed of RENDER24 compares well to the Windows Rendering. And more important, I can continue working on other projects and ideas (or doing accounting, YUK), while I crunch in the background. Based on my experience, OS/2 Warp has worked extremely well in solving my particle problem. If anyone needs help or more information drop me a note. All modules work flawlessly and quickly in seemless mode except RENDER which must be ran Full Screen. NOTE: This was done with Animation Master 2.07 and 2.08, I hope 3.0 will work the same way . Equipment: 486 80 DX2, 16M RAM, ATI Graphics Ultra PRO 4M VLB Note 2: Under warp the ATI fail multi-media playback in OS/2 at 24 bit mode. I therefor have been running in 65536 color mode. No Problems. This is a known bug in OS/2 Warp. Robb Canfield – Robb Canfield, Written 13-Feb-1995 @ 22:48:14 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.25