From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Sep 4 17:11: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3079E14DFF for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA89166; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199909050007.RAA89166@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New 3D software available In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 00:22:00 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:07:48 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cool! For me hardware acceleration will probably be fine with my TNT2 agp board 8) This is all great . I will have to rebuild my PIII box to try out your new specify super duper 3d package ! Tnks A Million! > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > van.woerkom@netcologne.de said: > > > I tried this under X11 (with riva-glx 3d acceleration) and got a > > > nice > > > animated teapot, rendered by Mesa. > > > > Most cool! > > > > Say how is the performance of hardware acceleration vs. software rendering? > > Hardware is hugely faster - Mesa is not a very fast software renderer. We > have been considering writing a decent software renderer for QDraw but we > don't have the time just yet. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 > > -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message