Re: ! Features of Performer 2.0 !

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Allan Schaffer (aschaffe)
Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:01:55 -0700

On Apr 3, 3:41pm, Virtuelles Modellunternehmen wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have simple questions concerning the new release of Performer. I couldn't
> find them in the mailing list, so I post them here:
>
> 1. Do Performer 2.0 or OpenPerformer base on OpenGL? And if so, do I
> have to expect severe performance problems? (Because OpenGL is
> hardware-independent and won't use the Reality-Engine...)

Performance should be fairly good, assuming you're running 5.3 plus
an upcoming OpenGL performance & feature patch that should be ready
at about the same time. I should temper this statement by saying
that this patch is still under development and so not everything has
been benchmarked yet.

I don't recommend OpenGL-based Performer 2.0 with IRIX 5.2. The
performance there was not so good, and most of the RealityEngine
extensions had not been implemented then.

> 2. What are the new features of Performer 2.0?

I'll hold off on this one for the moment, as I don't know what's been
confirmed to be announced quite yet.

Allan

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Allan Schaffer                                                aschaffe++at++sgi.com
Silicon Graphics                     http://reality.sgi.com/employees/aschaffe

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