Wavefront's The Advanced Visualizer (TAV): not as widely used as Softimage/Alias??

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Maybe it's a misconception on my part, but it doesn't seem to have been used nearly as much Softimage/Alias, and there seems to be very little information on this software compared to to other 3D software for IRIX. Was there as reason for this?


I was able to successfully install TAV 4.2.0 and use it on MAME, but with almost no documentation available the most that I can do with it is possibly import .obj files and do simple hierarchical/linked object animation and do basic still renders. Still pretty interesting to be able to use a (now) obscure software.
 

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