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Subject: OpelGL layout mode
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I stopped by NAB again today (closing day of the show) specifically
to catch a LW 5.0 demo at N-n-n-n-n-newtek's booth. I wasn't
disappointed.
I don't use LW professionally, I just piddle around with it on
my Amigas from time to time.
When I saw Brad Peebler dragging lights around in Layout and
watching them cast on a scene in real time as he moved them
around, well that just knocked me out. He did it quite a few times,
in fact, to make sure everyone got the point :)
He spent most of his 20 minute demo on the Nurbs feature, and was
quite proficient at it, starting with a cube and turning it
first into blow dryer and then into a rabbit-type head, with just
a few minutes of mushing the "clay" around, and that too was
impressive, but not nearly as much as the real time moving
lights in layout. The first time I saw something like that was
at a SIGGRAPH or NCGA conference a few years ago when it was
being done on megabucks Apollo workstations. Seeing it happen