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Taking the plunge: 6.6 to 7.11 // New Users

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Post by weaveribm // Mar 2, 2007, 1:38am

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 For TS users contemplating the upgrade and hearing scary stories about how things have changed. Or how they haven't perhaps

The GUI is even more complex than 6.6 in places but there is much more here than a polishing of icons

I have no idea how everything pulls together into the new functions but no rush, the Player screen looked to be puzzling until I loaded a scene from the mysteriously-named RS Scenes folder. Then it seems as if the Player screen is a beautifully rendered DX9 game screenshot - until moving the mouse takes you into the scene and you're able to interact with the objects. Absolutely stunning.

I upgraded to take advantage of the Vray renderer - as an (soi-disant) artist rather than as someone who does this stuff for a living

Under Vray rendering the application is at last something to match those jaw-dropping 3D graphics programs we'd see on Tomorrow's World when the PET first came out back in the 20th century, or maybe as output on a monitor at Cape Canaveral/Kennedy/Canaveral again :)

The algorithm has the renderer dancing around the screen like a Pointilliste painter paying attention to the places where the light from overlapping objects joins the dance. Absolutely gorgeous. I don't normally wait to see a slow render but was fascinated

No problems at all from my graphics card (SLI drivers to follow soon) handling both displays Player and Model. The screen does move around a bit :) but everything seemed to flow without any nasties from building a simple scene to viewing the animation

Another delight is the raw speed of 7.11. Moving an object takes care now as it will FLY around with the gentlest of nudges - very fast updating. I don't know how fundamentally fast Vray is and of course it's slower than native with every option on but it's very quick and extremely satisfying to the er, artistic temperament :)

A few small moments of awkwardness with toolbar indicators (tiny squares) fighting with me on trying to open the taskbar but these are Caligari features and quite lovable really, plus ca change :)

Peter

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