By Mike Stening (Mike_Stening) (213.235.9.84) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 04:34 am:

Some of you may or may not be aware that..

In the next couple of weeks there is a new update due for LW, to version 7.1, which is nice.

and...

Due next year is a mac version of Deep Paint 3D.

both from reliable sources

By Nik Mills (Nikmills) (193.152.180.217) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 05:09 am:

ah, yes, but is 7.1 free?

By Mike Stening (Mike_Stening) (213.235.9.84) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 10:50 am:

apparently yes it is

By Darthmole (Darthmole) (212.158.103.150) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 11:28 am:

I think I was at the same event! Yes, 7.1 is due in a few weeks - though will probably slip into the new year.

Will include soft and transparent shadows (which is great news for all those people who bought Shadow Designer from Evasion 3D. Sigh...)

Plus other features and bug-fixes. Deep Paint will be later next year, so don't hold yer breath.

7.1 is a free upgrade.

By Mike Stening (Mike_Stening) (213.235.9.84) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 03:49 pm:

darth, was that the one in uxbridge?

By Paul Andrews (Pauland) (62.253.64.6) on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 05:18 am:

For anyone in the UK that's interested, The pioneer A03 DVD-RW drives mentioned at that event (and fitted to some macs) are currently being sold in some branches of PC-world at 330 pounds including VAT. The authoring software supplied is rudimentary though. I have seen one of these drives, actually still on the shelf!

Paul

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/CDA/Industrial/IndustrialProductDetails/0,1444,796,00.html

By Paul Andrews (Pauland) (62.253.64.6) on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 05:20 am:

Oh, I should add that the software supplied is for a PC. Paul

By Kevin F Stubbs (Kevinfstubbs) (62.255.32.5) on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 08:21 am:

The DVR-A03 comes with Sonics MyDVD 2.3 at present for DVD authoring and rudimentary is quite a generous description for it Especially compared with the 'basic' package that comes with the Macs which we saw being demoed at the Newtek Event in Uxbridge the other day. You need a separate MPEG2 encoder for starters. I am using TMPGEnc for now, mainly because it is free

Note to anyone buying one of these drives for their PC. To use the supplied MyDVD software at all you have to disable DMA for the drive otherwise you will just get an error message shortly after the software starts writing to the disk.

By David Hoke (Hokeypokey) (207.217.206.2) on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 09:11 am:

Hey Fellas,

Also from a reliable source: The new power Mac G5s are headed our way, maybe sometime in mid December. Apparently clocking in at around 2 gig.
Dave

By Mike Stening (Mike_Stening) (213.235.9.84) on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 04:07 pm:

mmmmmmm, dual 2gig (say like Homer)

By riki (Suture) (203.109.250.99) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 02:47 am:

Didn't I read an article somewhere about motarola working on some 65Gig monster.

By Alexander Nguyen (Alexng) (213.84.38.160) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 09:22 am:

2 gig may be a bit optimistic... yields, you know!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/23078.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/22654.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/22677.html

By harlan (Harlan) (24.234.81.22) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 11:29 am:

Yeah Riki, Motorola was apparently the first to develop some new form of chip substrate or something and they are capable of making a chip reach 70Ghz - this is not with far away future technology either, and it shouldn't be too far off down the road. I'm not sure if they plan on it being a PowerPC chip, but claims for future G6's & G7's have been above 10Ghz so future PowerPC's may well be based on this new technology.

Oh, and remember that the G5 will also be available as a 64bit chip. This is nice because Intel's Itanium is still running at only 800Mhz so a 1.6Ghz 64bit chip would definitely have some marketability. ;)

Harlan

By Beam Tracer (Beamtracer) (198.142.205.54) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 03:24 pm:

Just back to the original topic...

The New Zealand company, Right Hemisphere, have been promising a Mac version of Deep Paint for many many years. Whenever somebody writes and asks them about this, there is the same pre-formatted reply that one will be coming.

This issue regularly pops up on Julian Johnson's Mac Lightwave page, when someone receives an email from Right Hemisphere that Deep Paint will soon be on the Mac.

http://www.exchangefs.co.uk/lightwave/index.htm

Because of this history, any claims about Deep Paint coming to the Mac should be regarded with great skepticism. Those who are waiting the long wait for something like this to happen may wish to evaluate the alternative... BodyPaint for OSX, by Maxon of Germany.

http://www.maxon.net/

By tim anderson (Tim) (66.26.96.229) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 04:46 pm:

beamtracer,
do you actually use bodypaint/w LW?
cause at last count, no one here could get it to work
(some sort of plugin miscomunication with the " LW hub o nuttin")
and then maxon chimed in and sayin it was hosed and they were working on it....
just curious.

By Beam Tracer (Beamtracer) (198.142.205.222) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 09:58 pm:

BodyPaint for OSX is out and works. The problem is the plug-in which automatically transfers the model from one program to the other.

Yeah, this is an issue. The plug-in would make it much easier and seamless.

However... a new OSX BP-LW plug-in is in final beta testing now. A couple of months ago Maxon was looking for Lightwave OSX users to beta test it for them. The release of this plug-in is imminent. Still a better bet than waiting for Deep Paint.