Re: Multigen doubts..

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:36:14 -0800

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On Jan 11, 12:20pm, Devrim Erdem wrote:
> Subject: Re: Multigen doubts..
> > Creator is currently being ported to the SGI. The SGI version
> > of Creator will be running under WinMain a Win32 emulation API. This
> > will be available in about a month or two. The Tools API will be
> > available with this version of the software.
> >
>
> Does this mean that MultiGen II Pro will be discontinued ?
>
> Secondly I sense that emulating such a high end graphics is not very good
> idea especially
> with the large terrain databases. I hope you have good reasons.

The reasons seem obvious, MultiGen want to go cross platform but
maintain a single development track for their GUI code. This doesn't
have the dire performance implications you seem to be implying.
The software should still be able to make native graphics calls,
it should be the win32 and possible Microsoft Foundation Classes which
are emulated and the performance I expect will be reasonably good,
this is an emulation API, ity's still compiled natively. This
is much more attractive than maintaining legacy proprietary GUI
code which had already been abandoned and anyone who has used
Motif wouldn't be quick to sing it's praises.

I'd worry if this were a real-time piece of software but for a
modelling tool I expect the approach to provide good results.

Cheers,Angus.

-- 
"They can't break you if you don't have a spine."
                                      - Wally.

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