[rescue] Wooohhhooo XP -> 0 to BSOD in 12min23sec

[James Sharp]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, George W Adkins wrote:

>
> >
> > I'm told the king is Maya, but I've never been able to get hands on time
> > with that either.
>
> I recently obtained a big SGI box (Onyx RE2) and want to try my hand at some
> animation work on it.  I was considering poking around with Blender, but I
> was told that it will make NO use of the Hardware in the box.

Nope.  It won't.  Sure, its OpenGL compatible...but it just uses that to
display once its done all of the CPU-bound rendering.

> what would be an _obtainable_ package that I could use on this machine which
> would make ust of the graphics hardware?  I mean if I'm going to run Blender,
> I might as well run it on a POS Intel box...
>

Scary enough, that was the one thing that I had a 100000000000Thz for...it
could chew through a blender scene in no time flat.