Tore Eriksson Wrote:
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> Roland Melkert Wrote:
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> > LDView seems to be slower then my editor while
> > rotating but it does more eye candy
>
> Eye candy is a good thing - if it is possible to
> deselect with speed to gain.
>
> > It basically comes down to
> > your VGA card being somewhat recent (I have a
> > Radeon 3870 512MB which is 'old' they say
)
>
> Not really when it comes to L3Lab, and probably
> not with LDView either(?) I know L3Lab only uses
> CPU power, and I don't know about LDView, but I
> think it's the same thing there. No 3D
> acceleration from the VGA card.
>
LDView should use VGA acceleration unless it isn't available, if that's the case I'm afraid my editor won't do much better. But the model being that big it could even be 'slow' with acceleration, I kinda assumed the 60+ seconds you mentioned is including loading time though.
> > Anyhow you are welcome to join the group of
> > testers I send alpha versions to, as asked in
> this
> > thread:
> >
> > http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?tid=173,173
>
> Done!
I'll contact you when I have a new test version ready (need to fix a problem concerning relative references first.)
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> Roland Melkert Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > LDView seems to be slower then my editor while
> > rotating but it does more eye candy
>
> Eye candy is a good thing - if it is possible to
> deselect with speed to gain.
>
> > It basically comes down to
> > your VGA card being somewhat recent (I have a
> > Radeon 3870 512MB which is 'old' they say
)>
> Not really when it comes to L3Lab, and probably
> not with LDView either(?) I know L3Lab only uses
> CPU power, and I don't know about LDView, but I
> think it's the same thing there. No 3D
> acceleration from the VGA card.
>
LDView should use VGA acceleration unless it isn't available, if that's the case I'm afraid my editor won't do much better. But the model being that big it could even be 'slow' with acceleration, I kinda assumed the 60+ seconds you mentioned is including loading time though.
> > Anyhow you are welcome to join the group of
> > testers I send alpha versions to, as asked in
> this
> > thread:
> >
> > http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?tid=173,173
>
> Done!
I'll contact you when I have a new test version ready (need to fix a problem concerning relative references first.)