From: johnl@efn.org (John Leavens) Subject: Re: REV-PROD: Renderware Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 23:01:49 GMT Organization: Oregon Research Institute From: johnl@efn.org (John Leavens) In article <45blv8$7j2@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, Christopher Norris wrote: >I do not know how to rate VR creation software but how does Renderware >stack up against VRCreator, Rend386, Avril, WorldBuilder, >WorldToolkit, by Sense8, and WorldUP by Sense8(which is a visual >interface such as visual basic to World Toolkit. We have been using wtk for the i860 for the past couple of years. for our new projects we found their performance to be unacceptable. we evaluated renderware and argonaut's brender as possible alternatives. brender and renderware are 3d engines and provide no support for your i/o devices. on the flip side we found the 3d performance of renderware and argonaut far superior. our current systems had 2 - i860 cards w/ a pentium motherboard. our model had less than 1000 polygons w/ 2 small surfaces textured. soundwise we had crystal river's beachtron, a logitech head tracker, and a virtual research VR4 hmd. so w/ 2 i860 cards we average about 10 frames/sec.....w/ brender i can get that w/ standard VGA cards. w/ brender or renderware you'll need to write your own drivers and develop your own control code. we ended up going w/ argonaut because their documentation was better and their support is more reliable. they seem very reponsive to customer needs. good luck, johnl John Leavens Oregon Research Institute johnl@efn.org 503-484-2123 ext307