Surprisingly there is no simple way in Windows to check the 3D graphics capability of a PC. The best way we have found is to Start / Run / DXDIAG and view the Display information reported. If the Device name contains nVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon and the memory is 32MB or greater then the 3D graphics aspect should be satisfied. We have received feedback that the Intel 915 (with 128MB of shared memory) also performs satisfactory.

Under 'Device' (on left hand side of box), check 'Approx. Total Memory' - this should be more than '16.0 MB'. If so, your graphics capability is fine. If not, you need to upgrade your graphics card to run this program efficiently. See similar questions...

The comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ contains a lot of 3D graphics information that isn't specific to OpenGL. excellent general computer graphics text is Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, by James Foley, et al. ISBN 0-201-12110-7. It has been mentioned that this book is out of print and that a third edition is planned for release in January 2001. However, some online book retailers still seem to have it for sale. Try amazon.com. See similar questions...

We use an overhead view because it's better for seeing who is in your adventuring party. Smaller graphics mean that you can see farther and more people, and Clan Lord tends to have lots of people playing together. (Why else be online?) And tiny graphics look better hand-drawn than 3D. See similar questions...

In creating this game, we decided that instead of focusing on creating pretty graphics, we would instead focus on creating a game which was fun to play. Also, since we do coding for this game in our spare time, we decided to try and limit the complexity of the task we were undertaking. A third reason is that none of the current development team is familiar with either of the two dominant graphics APIs: DirectX and OpenGL. See similar questions...

Surprisingly there is no simple way in Windows to check the 3D graphics capability of a PC. The best way we have found is to Start / Run / DXDIAG and view the Display information reported. If the Device name contains nVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon and the memory is 32MB or greater then the 3D graphics aspect should be satisfied. We have received feedback that the Intel 915 (with 128MB of shared memory) also performs satisfactory. See similar questions...

Not anymore. I started out doing that in the mid 1980's and did so for many years. At that time there really wasn't any software capable of doing what needed to be done so I always found myself writing the software and tools to support the production role. After many years I decided that I liked development a lot more than the production side and focussed on that exclusively. See similar questions...

I am an independant artist for hire, modeling for animation, stills, video games etc. But I have to warn you, 3D art this complex can be very expensive and typically only large commerical firms can afford it. Were I to perform all the requests that I recieved for free, I would never have any time to myself B). As much as I like creating, I'm limited by time and cost. See similar questions...

A high-performance graphics card will certainly help. The underlying system spends a lot of time blitting 32-bit RGB bitmaps to the screen. But no 3D capabilities of the card will be used. See similar questions...

If you have more than one 3d accelerator card and would like to change which card the game uses, edit the config.dat file in your install directory (using a text editing program such as notepad). Remove the semi-colon from the line ';ChooseDevice=true'. When you next run the game, you will be given the option to choose which accelerator card is used. See similar questions...

Yes. Wizardry 8 has been designed as a 3D-accelerated game from the ground up. We've taken special care to make the 3D effects part of the game, not just showy gimmicks. We want you to think, "Wow, those etched glass windows look fantastic," not, "Oh look, another translucency." See similar questions...

No. You need a 3D Card, but it does not have to the latest and greatest. A 3D graphics card that is DirectX 9 compatible is all that's required. If you do have a super high powered 3D card, you will enjoy an enhanced battlefield experience. See similar questions...

for those who have grown tired of the newbie questions, why do you continue to answer them?? Just to go on the other side of the fence, some are not as "internet search savvy" as others and come here for help. As dedicated homebrewers with experience, are we not obligated by our love for the nectar of the Gods to nuture and tolerate the up and coming?? To allow the youngsters to grow in the craft and possibly sway them to our own brewing phylosophies. See similar questions...

Yes. Simply click the Load function to go to the file requester. PAP will automatically recognize a sequence of numbered frames as a clip. We support all the most popular formats, such as TGA, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and more. PAP understands most numbering schemes. The files could be named like this: name0001.ext, name0002.ext... or simply 1.ext, 2.ext... The imported frames will be placed in the blue layer and therefore colored monochrome blue. See similar questions...

Not necessarily. MacroModel has an X-Windows only mode. If you have the ability to display to an X-Terminal, a workstation that supports X-Windows, or a PC/Mac which is running an X-emulator, then you can probably run MacroModel. While the capabilities are less than in the 3D GL mode, many users find the X-Windows mode completely satisfactory. When running the program in X-Windows mode on an SGI nothing else need be done. See similar questions...

K-3D makes extensive use of OpenGL in the user interface. This allows the program to easily benefit from hardware acceleration on the end-user's platform. K-3D version <= 0.4 connect to the OpenGL API through the SDPGL library, which wraps the OpenGL functions so that they can be traced. When SDPGL_TRACE is defined at build time, all OpenGL calls will be logged to stdout for analysis. See similar questions...

This is a very sensitive area and the rule is... Credit where credit is due, please! Good graphics take a lot of expertise to produce. It is amazing that so many authors give them away. If you use someone else's graphics do NOT allow others to think that it is your work. Give the Author credit and add a link back to the author's web page. See similar questions...