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#97946From: James TichenorApr 20, 1994 11:00 AM

Thanks for remembering this thread – 2 1/2 months old! I agree 32megs isn't enough and I should have more. But while I'm at it, a Pentium or PowerPC chip would help, as well as a hardware renderer. Maybe 3DS will incorporate a feature similar to the SoftImage system, using gurard real time hardware rendering. THAT would be cool! Has there been talk about posting 3DS from DOS, or optimizing for these more powerful chips? James

#97957From: Yost GroupApr 20, 1994 11:35 AM

Wait till you see our new IPAS routines. Does 42,000 Gouraud-shaded polygons per second (on a Pentium) sound good to you? – G

#98011From: Mike KelleyApr 20, 1994 5:45 PM

There you go again, whetting our appetite for these tasty morsels. So, are we looking at about a week? And am I first in line?

#98033From: Yost GroupApr 20, 1994 7:29 PM

The catalog stuff is still at the printer, and it's scheduled to be back from the press sometime next week (we're running about a week behind schedule on that, since it was supposed to be back tomorrow). The documentation is going to the pre-press guy tomorrow, and hopefully that'll take less than two weeks, which puts us at about May 3rd to get back from the press (but then the manuals have to get FedExp'd to Schreiber Inst, which'll take another day or so). All-in-all, it looks like, if _everything_ goes smoothly from here on out, we'll be shipping by the end of that first week of May. The code is all doing fine, so we're hardcopy-bound at this point. – G

#98126From: James TichenorApr 21, 1994 11:38 AM

<<Wait till you see our new IPAS routines. Does 42,000 Gouraud-shaded polygons per second (on a Pentium) sound good to you?>> Only 42,000? I'll bet you could do better 🙂 Just kidding! That sounds AWESOME!! Very, very cool! Can you give more specifics on how it'll work? That's pretty close to real-time 🙂 You're giving SoftImage a run for their money (a lot of it, in comparison). Will you incorporate it into the editor or Keyframer screens, similar to SoftImage, or is that encroaching on copyright probs? That sounds so cool!! I'd love details, if possible. Thanks! (I knew there was a reason to come back!) James

#98221From: Yost GroupApr 21, 1994 7:54 PM

There'll be a working demo up here on the system by the end of next week, so you can play with it yourself. Obviously, at 42K shaded polys per second, you can move fairly complex objects pretty quickly. Of course, since these are IPAS routines, they live outside of the ed/kf. – G

#98197From: Peter BaileyApr 21, 1994 5:36 PM

Gary……. WHAT THE ?!?!?!?!?! <<42,000 Gouraud-shaded polygons per second (on a Pentium)>> Gimme gimme!!! Glenn.

#98222From: Yost GroupApr 21, 1994 7:54 PM

Calm down, Glenn! <g> – G

#98470From: Evan Yares [WeirdTM]Apr 24, 1994 4:30 AM

Make 'em Phong shaded. <G> Evan

#98500From: Yost GroupApr 24, 1994 12:10 PM

No need to… Gouraud shows you everything you need, including what all the smoothing groups are doing. (as if you didn't know that 🙂

#98026From: John TissavaryApr 20, 1994 7:19 PM

As Gary mentioned, IPAS3 makes it possible to do real-time previews. Naturally the PC is not as powerful a 3D display device as an SGI with 3D display hardware, but this should be SUPER OUTRAGEOUSLY COOL, nevertheless <g>. John Tissavary (LUNA cie)

#98130From: James TichenorApr 21, 1994 11:38 AM

Cheers, John, Good to hear (see) your voice. How are you? Lot's of work? James

#98205From: John TissavaryApr 21, 1994 6:54 PM

I've been keeping quite busy, lately. I'm winding down on a project right now, so I'll be out hustling for work soon <g>. Glad you made it back to the forum. John Tissavary (LUNA cie)