What are the artists using? Macs? NT machines? SGI machines? What? The article in Linux Journal about the Star Wars Episode II production shows the use of Linux in the creation of the product. At least that's what I got out of it. I'm sure the rendering is done by the Linux machines as well, but the GUI tools looked like artists' tools as well.
Sooooo, why is ILM using Linux for 3D rendering? Are all their tools proprietary? Has no one released any non proprietary tools? I just don't get it. I'm not a big multimedia hound, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
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I'm running a Celeron Coppermine 900 with an Abit VH6T board, and a cheapo C-Media 8738 with no extras. The sound is better than in Win98 by far. When I would minimize windows in Win98, the card would lag, and the music would actually slow down. Since I loaded Linux on the same machine, I've had no problems. It's working great! I'm playing music on an old SB16 with XMMS, and have the game audio functioning under the C-media card. It's freaking fantastic!
Also glad to see Transgaming provided a Slackware package! W0ot!
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What are the artists using? Macs? NT machines? SGI machines? What? The article in Linux Journal about the Star Wars Episode II production shows the use of Linux in the creation of the product. At least that's what I got out of it. I'm sure the rendering is done by the Linux machines as well, but the GUI tools looked like artists' tools as well.
Sooooo, why is ILM using Linux for 3D rendering? Are all their tools proprietary? Has no one released any non proprietary tools? I just don't get it. I'm not a big multimedia hound, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
I'm running a Celeron Coppermine 900 with an Abit VH6T board, and a cheapo C-Media 8738 with no extras. The sound is better than in Win98 by far. When I would minimize windows in Win98, the card would lag, and the music would actually slow down. Since I loaded Linux on the same machine, I've had no problems. It's working great! I'm playing music on an old SB16 with XMMS, and have the game audio functioning under the C-media card. It's freaking fantastic! Also glad to see Transgaming provided a Slackware package! W0ot!