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Jay Lundy Jay Lundy is offline
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Originally posted by NaiLZ
You are right about render time. I was not thinking when I said Real-Time. 8 ). Anyway thanks for the correction. On another note however there can be a great advantage to having a smooth preview. It can save you valuble render time that could be used to correct/improve the anim.
-Neil
Though even with the preview, if you have a fast enough processor and enough ram the preview renders smoothly no matter what your video card is. I have a geforce 3 ti200, but I still run the software z-buffer and the preview works fine (1.53 GHz processor, 512 MB ram).

BTW, I don't run on open GL or direct 3d because for some reason it doesn't work correctly for 3dsmax (it works fine for everything else) and I'm too lazy to find out why.