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Posted by Mike Wheeler on September 29, 1998 at 12:15:34:
In Reply to: Arcades posted by kenkuhlman on September 29, 1998 at 06:18:33:
Ken,
All monitors today are approximately 72 dpi. I read an article recently that someone (IBM?) had recently developed an LCD display which doubles the screen resolution up to about 150 dpi.
Games have very specialized 3D engines which are highly optimized to work as smoothly as possible with that particular game. They use lots of tricks to speed things up which could not work in a general 3D modeling environment.
Could DesignWorkshop do anything like what?
The speed? Probably not because the specialized optimizations they make cannot be used in general cases. As hardware gets faster the speed of DesignWorkshop will improve. Based on our testing of rendering speeds of other software we are pushing the capabilities of the hardware and have things working as smoothas possible.
The graphics? You can define your own DesignWorkshop textures which have as much detail as you want, providing you have the RAM needed to display them. As higher-level plug-in renderers are releKeep in mind though, the more detail in the model and the higher the level of rendering the more time it takes to render.
Mike Wheeler
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