Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #44160
From: Rich Young <aefilter@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:47:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
CS5 is when AE got 3D features. It took 11 years to get extruded text (except for the cycles that shipped Invigorator), which was apparently designed for those comfortable buying a $1000 GPU for their tower computer.

Personally I'm OK with Nvidia acceleration, though my card is much slower in AE. I expect most already caught this article:

http://prolost.com/blog/2012/6/4/fast-ray-tracers.html


--- On Wed, 6/6/12, Daniel Ramirez <ramirezdan@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not seeing how CS5 is relevant to the conversation.

The visit(s) I'm referring to were conducted Dec 2010 - Jan 2011.

In any case, I don't have a time machine and if I did, I'd be watching the sun be born or maybe do something dinosaur related.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Rich Young <aefilter@yahoo.com> wrote:
Too bad Adobe can't get on the same page as a company for 3D features. CS5 was a long time ago.

The customers we visited that were interested in doing simple text and shapes in 3D were comfortable buying a $1000 GPU for their tower computer in order to use the feature. It's possible we visited the wrong people,...

 
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