naughton%wind@Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) (02/07/89)
Has anyone ported MTV to a PC running DOS with a VGA display?
(Hints on porting issues welcome...)
If not, can anyone recommend a good ray tracing/animation package for the VGA?
-Patrick
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Patrick J. Naughton ARPA: naughton@Sun.COM
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080johnm@trsvax.UUCP (02/08/89)
>Has anyone ported MTV to a PC running DOS with a VGA display? >(Hints on porting issues welcome...) Probably, but I don't know... >If not, can anyone recommend a good ray tracing/animation package for the VGA? > >-Patrick I know of two good packages that have been ported to the PC (both of which can indirectly use the VGA). One is DBW Render which was ported by another fellow and I added a program to convert its output to GIF format so that it could be viewed by those with VGA's, EGA's, etc. Unfortunately a user recently wrote me to say that he had been getting stack overflows with even relatively few objects in the scene. A much better possibility is QRT v.1.4 which was ported very recently to the PC and is available in the Borland Languages section on Compu$erve (GO BPROGB) in the data library devoted to Turbo C 2.0. Again I did my little bit by adding the necessary programs to convert the output to GIF format for viewing by everybody. I like this particular program better for many reasons, not the least of which is that with my 20Mhz 386 and 387 I can get a ray traced picture out of it in less than 20 minutes. It also is just about the only ray tracer around with a sensible scripting language, DBW Render had some awesome texturing functions but its scripting language was a sick joke. John Munsch