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[News] Blender v2.27 port for MorphOSANN.lu
Posted on 23-Jun-2003 19:28 GMT by takemehomegrandma23 comments
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"Yomgui says at Amiga Impact that his Blender port for MorphOS is progressing well. Yomgui's Blender port uses Jungl which is the Mesa implementation for MorphOS."

You can find a link to a screenshot at: morphos-news.de.

Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 1 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 23-Jun-2003 17:30 GMT
Looks really cool if you ask me! :-)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 2 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by hooligan/dcs on 23-Jun-2003 17:40 GMT
And most of all, very confusing :)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 3 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Well on 23-Jun-2003 17:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (takemehomegrandma):
Seems that MOS becomes an OS with one GUI-Toolkit per app. Some consistency please?
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 4 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 23-Jun-2003 17:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Well):
Blender has its own GUI, much like Imagine. There's no much one can do about it.

Fabio Alemagna
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 5 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by mahen on 23-Jun-2003 17:50 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Well):
MUI is the official toolkit
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 6 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 23-Jun-2003 18:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Well):
Like it's allways been on the Amiga ... ;-)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 7 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Kelly Samel on 23-Jun-2003 20:06 GMT
It's about time we have a new 3D program that is
modern and updated. I look forward to trying
this out. GUI looks nice. I really enjoy the
custom GUIs of Imagine and Lightwave, they are
more suitable for 3D work. Hopefully blender
follows in this tradition.
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 8 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Daniel Miller on 24-Jun-2003 07:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Kelly Samel):
Kelly Samel typed:

> It's about time we have a new 3D program that is
> modern and updated. I look forward to trying
> this out. GUI looks nice. I really enjoy the
> custom GUIs of Imagine and Lightwave, they are
> more suitable for 3D work. Hopefully blender
> follows in this tradition.

Lightwave seems to work on MorphOS. I don't know how to use Lightwave but I did boot it, select some options and move things around. It doesn't look as nice or seem as advanced as that screenshot (http://zapek.meanmachine.ch/blender_snapshot001.jpg) of Blender though.
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 9 of 23ANN.lu
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Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 10 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Kelly Samel on 24-Jun-2003 09:12 GMT
Yes, LightWave works OK. But until the "jit" arrives the
interface is a bit slow and it will be nice to have a PPC
native renderer that is updated once and awhile. :)
Cinema4D runs perfect though and has a snappy interface.

I am alternating between LightWave and Cinema4D for now.
Cinema4D is nice, but lacking important features in some
areas. Blender will be a real breath of fresh air for 3D
artists.
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 11 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by tokai on 24-Jun-2003 10:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Kelly Samel):
I agree.

check out bender3d.org for more information. Looks very interesting! :)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 12 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Geremy on 25-Jun-2003 08:50 GMT
I Wish to see it on OS4 too! Blender is a very good app! (2 megabytes executable, runs without installing on Linux systems!!!!)
Now we need only a G5 Pegasos or AmigaOne! :-)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 13 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by pixie on 25-Jun-2003 09:31 GMT
Just let me say 2 things:
Blender gui sucks bug time
Cinema 4D 8 ported would be better anytime anyday, and would give Pegasos/Amiga a much professional look, then somekind of 3D open source program
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 14 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by pixie on 25-Jun-2003 09:33 GMT
But hey, that's better than nothing,aaaaaaaa I guess...
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 15 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by pixie on 25-Jun-2003 09:33 GMT
But hey, that's better than nothing, I guess...
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 16 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Jun-2003 11:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (pixie):
Obviously you never used Blender. And if you want Cinema 4D on MOS, why don't you license it and start porting today? Stop flaming others for doing terrific work for the platform and - if you think you can ask others to do so - do better .. or shut up.
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 17 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by LorD on 25-Jun-2003 11:46 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Anonymous):
I totally agree with you, it is a huge task to port this soft !!

And Blender is not only a 3D software it can be used to create games since it manage sounds, scripts, etc....

It is really an amazing software !

Thanks Yomgui !
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 18 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by pixie on 25-Jun-2003 12:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Anonymous):
Obviously I had... That's why I write that...
People don't usually deal well with truth
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Despite being good, it is always better then nothing, but I doubt that MorphOS having the same and low productive suits as Linux gives him any advantage over it...

Cinema4D on another matter is a professional product, delivers what is expected from it and delivers fast... that's why it's targueted at... professional market.

If you only want to do hobbie stuff, don't expect your machine to be anything else.

Amiga was a professional machine, if not only because it had NewTek's Video Toaster... Think big and you'll maybe get big, think small and small it's all you may get.

Genesi/Amiga should think what they really need for their OSs, and I doubt anyone of them really needs Blender, although it can't do them no bad... anytime soon Blender will be also for AmigaOS4 so it will be no problem either both will get it, both would get a plain dull 3D program! Yeah... (not)

I'd used and I'm not necessarily thrilled about it, sorry...
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 19 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by selco on 25-Jun-2003 12:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Kelly Samel):
I like Lightwave very much and the GUI is very handy after some lerning time. (Even if it looks very non Amiga-standard conformous first)

The ability to run lightwave could be THE reason to buy a pegasos!

(see ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/pix/mpg/littlejedi.mpg for my biggest work so far ;)

Regarding Lightwave on MOS:
Does the originial version, (e.g. the Dongle) work on a pegasos now? I think it was not supported in the past...

Kind regards selco
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 20 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by pixie on 25-Jun-2003 12:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (selco):
IMHO Lightwave had it's time, and now there's a new king in town - Cinema4D! ;) And it's a German company, if you know what I mean... ;)
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 21 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Neko on 25-Jun-2003 14:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (pixie):
> Genesi/Amiga should think what they really need for their OSs, and I doubt
> anyone of them really needs Blender

Genesi and Amiga have nothing to do with porting Blender, or anything else.
It's not the job of any OS company to run around creating every application
for every user. That's why we have developers in the community - which Guillaume
Roguez (yomgui) is.

The only connection is: Guillaume just so happens to be the only person outside
of the MorphOS Core Team that has access to jungl and the developer includes
for it, ONLY because he signed up to MDC (http://mdc.morphos.net) and ASKED.

Of course the circumstances were that he had a good project which had all the
legwork done for him: simply moving the platform-specific API to MorphOS was
going to be based around jungl, and you cannot avoid using it. If he had not
come along and said he wanted to port it, I would have done it personally (I
love using Blender on Windows) so it basically saved me some effort :D

-- Neko
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 22 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Casey R Williams on 26-Jun-2003 17:35 GMT
Some things I'd like to point out on this subject...

Blender's GUI is a love/hate thing. Some people swear by it, and obviously the developers felt comfortable with it as it was used in house for some time.

Gameblender is not yet open source. This is due to gameblender using a physics engine that was apparently licensed and paid for by gameblender publisher licensees. However I've heard that the physics engine is about to be open sourced and so gameblender should become viable again. My understanding is that gameblender is just the name for newer versions of blender with the logic and physics functions. I could be wrong about this though.

Art of Illusion is an amazing open source 3D suite written in java, so whenever there's finally a good jvm it would be another exciting option for 3d artists. I seriously recommend taking a look at what this program offers.

And maybe someone could take a look at Wings3D. It's not a full 3d suite, but rather a very usable modeler that would be very nice to have ported.
Blender v2.27 port for MorphOS : Comment 23 of 23ANN.lu
Posted by Casey R Williams on 27-Jun-2003 15:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (Casey R Williams):
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that according to the manual, blender started out as an unreleased Amiga raytracer.
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