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If you set back the clocks 12-18 months you'll find a whole raft of commercial companies pledging support for BeOS, most of whom still haven't pledged support for Linux (although some are coming around). The second drawback is the perception of support. That should be fixed by the end of the year, if not sooner.

#Softimage 3d linux software#

Since my goal is to sell animation and not to sell software (which is and should be considered as a tool), animation is where I'll earn the money to pay for food and bills.Īs I see it, producing a good show thanks to the program will make me much more money than selling the program and support for it, mainly because the *market* for animation gives you many more chances that the software market.īeOS's first biggest drawback for this sort of thing right now is no hardware OpenGL support. Since I can't afford a commercial program but I'd like to try producing something, I'm considering writing an animation program, and releasing it under the GPL: this allow me to save *years* of development thanks to the many tools available for integration in my programs (think for example Autotrace ), and to have other people working on the project for their own interest. and software you decide to use: this cuts out a very large number of people, myself and friends included. How many animation studios/customers do you think there are for such a program, or worse, for Animo that costs UKP 10.000? The animation software/hardware system price tag for an animation shop with say 10 animators is in the $65.000 - $100.000 range, depending on which kind of hardware, O.S. While I usually share your view that many Linux users want too much for free, in this case I think you are the one that can't see in the right perspective. The Redmond guys make a shitty OS, but they make catastrophical API's. And development on Unix is definately a lot nicer than on Windows. That being said, I develop an OpenGL program on Linux and Solaris, and after all the trouble of setting it up on Linux, I have no problems here.

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Saying Linux is free means nothing for businesses who have to pay their sysadmins.Īll in all, I generally disagree with you completely. couldn't be happier that its cost me nothing (well, if you count a couple of years slaving away figuring all this stuff out 'nothing')Įxactly. Nvidia are very close (just a couple frames slower with Quake), and Matrox is the exception.

#Softimage 3d linux drivers#

As for performance, even the fastest OpenGL drivers for Linux are smoked completely by their Windows counterparts. This has nothing to do with the unstability of Windows. Wether or not your app is running more stable on Linux is a matter of programming it correctly. >After suffering through the frequent crashes and general wierdness of Windows, my apps run rock-stable on linux, perform better and i. The Windows OpenGL sucks so much it's hard to believe, where the oss Linux drivers are good.) The only descent drivers for Linux are the nvidia ones, and they're not open source. Most definately not! The OpenGL drivers for SGI machines running IRIX, Sun boxes and even Windows are much faster and more reliable than the Linux ones. >It really is a better platform for 3D work. >For someone like me, who is already doing all his 3D work in Linux with Blender and Corel PhotoPaint, this news comes as no surprise. Running Quake on a FireGL 1 or a Wildcat is not good, but interactive modelling is a lot faster than the game cards.

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But the professional OpenGL cards accelerate completely different parts of the pipeline than gamecards. >With the interactive apps becoming available, this will drive demand for real hardware OpenGL on Linux, which will benefit the casual linux user because games will run well. Don't even think about running Linux on this. Pixar's renderfarm consists of 96 Sun machines with 14 UltraSPARC 2's in each for instance. Remember that the cost of a renderfarm is so huge that the OS doesn't even have a pricetag. On alpha's Linux would probably be the choice though.

On SPARC I wouldn't even dream of running Linux - choose Solaris. If I was stuck with x86, I would probably go for FreeBSD. >Why would you choose anything else for your render-farm?Īctually I would choose something else. (Yes, the XFree versions are to be treated as betas.) Solaris has had good OpenGL solutions for years now, and the Unix world is not going to shift to Linux because the XFree team has a beta of version 4 out. What on earth makes you say that? Having a good linux server with apache is both better and cheaper than NT/IIS, but that has not convinced people to switch anyway. >Within six months, a significant percentage of 3D work will shift to the Linux platform. >Well, looks like the film industry is done with NT and who can blame them?