[comp.sys.amiga] Paint&animation package

dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) (12/18/90)

A friend of mine is considering buying an ST. Horrible thought!
The reason he is considering this is Neochrome, a paintprogram
with very easy to use animation. I was hoping that DpaintIV would
address this but now I hear that 3.25 is just released and DpaintIV
is a long way off. I am looking for a good user interface with
integrated paint and animation functions.

Is there such a program out there?

/Jorgen
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amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) (12/18/90)

dPaint III is a pretty awesome paint/animation package..Jim Sachs (premier
amiga artist, Disney animator swears by it)..what can Neochrome do that
dPaint III can not?  Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint
IV?  

kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (12/18/90)

In article <37013@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>dPaint III can not?  Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint
>IV?  

To run correctly under 2.0 and on a 3000.


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jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (01/08/91)

>In article <37013@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>>Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint IV?  

In article <346@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>To run correctly under 2.0 and on a 3000.

What problems are you talking about?  I haven't had any problems with
Deluxe Paint III on my A3000.  (I'm talking about the 'fixed' Dpaint-III,
the one that has "PAL" and "NTSC" as options on the startup screen.)
The very first release if Dpaint-III did not run properly on a standard
A2000 if you had run 'morerows', but the current release works fine.
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kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (01/09/91)

In article <1404@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>>In article <37013@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>>>Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint IV?  
>
>In article <346@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>To run correctly under 2.0 and on a 3000.
>
>What problems are you talking about?  I haven't had any problems with
>Deluxe Paint III on my A3000.  (I'm talking about the 'fixed' Dpaint-III,
>the one that has "PAL" and "NTSC" as options on the startup screen.)
>The very first release if Dpaint-III did not run properly on a standard
>A2000 if you had run 'morerows', but the current release works fine.

Brand new DPaintIII. Has the PAL & NTSC options. Don't know anything more about
it being 'fixed' or not.

1) Many operations (especially animation calculations) run as fast (or
seemingly) slower than on an a2000. I'll admit I haven't measured this
stuff. While we are at it, how about 68881/2 support?  After all...

2) Crashes on a VERY regular basis, regardless of the state of the
caches.  Essentially isn't stable enough to let it sit back and
calculate frames by itself under 2.0. Has to run under 1.3 to
accomplish anything, and I ended up making a 10M data partition since
the partition gets trashed every time it crashes while writing data
under 1.3. (Thank C= this doesn't happen under 2.0)

While this isn't all that's wrong, these two are enough to send it
back, and puts it in the same category as WordPerfect - Nice features,
but unusable. (Takes about 5 tries to hit a WP requestor button)

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I'll stop here...

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mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) (01/09/91)

>>>In article <37013@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>>>>Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint IV?  

I would really like to see the antialiasing that is available in the
Perspective tool incorporated into the Move tool. This seems like it
would be a trivial operation and would make the Move requester
infinitely more useful (at least in my opinion).
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