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<Pine.A32.3.92a.960701112808.59385C-100000@homer25.u.washington.edu>, "C.
Huang" <chrishu@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Hmm.. I am not sure what kind of software you are running right this
> minute.  Many people complain to me that Ray Dream Designer 4 is very a
> expensive junk.  The program itself has lots bugs and unfriendly
> interface.  The render is much slower than True space.  Furthermore, it's
> ray tracing isn't as good quality as others.  I also heard of Ray Dream
> Designer can't really use windows resource very much.  The programmer of
> "RDD4" does like "MENUS".. some people say that the whole program just
> lots of icons and those icons don't do as much function.  When you want to
> make an object, you have to go though many those icon menus.
> Of course.. I had once.  I returned the second day.  It is so slow to load
> up. "took me 3 minutes to load up in 486/66 16ram".  After load up, I have
> to wait about 5 minutes to look at the menu I have got.  < when I load up,
> it has nothing but blank menus.  I decided to wait half hour, it finally
> poped up the MENU LIST after 5 minuts. >
> From my experience, I don't think I will give ray dream designer a chance
> any more.  I don't know if they fix the bug or not. My version was 3.
> 
> Chris

I totally disagree. I use Ray Dream Designer on a PowerWave 604/132 with
32 megs of RAM and it ROCKS. It takes about one minute to load, but
considering all the extentions and plug-ins, that's not bad. Rendering at
300 dpi is bad? I've had photographic runout done on RD-4 tracings that
look as good as ANY professional application costing ten times as much. I
think RD-4 is worth it just for the shaders ... you can edit and create
them endlessly ... for BILLIONS of different effects. I also beg to differ
on Mr. Huang's opinion of the icons. They ALL have functions, often many
functions in one. When you have as much going on as in RD-4, you have to
have a LOT of menus and icons.

M.K.