3. Environment necessary for designers

When a designer does development, there are several possible machine configurations. However, for designers, a large part of their dependence is on software rather than hardware, so we will list typical product names and compatible models for each necessary tool.

Table 3-1 List of typical tools for designers

tool	Compatible models		product name	remarks
	S.G.I.	Mac
3D tools	○		SOFTIMAGE 3D Saturn Toolkit	Sega recommended products
		○	ShadeIII for SEGASATURN	Sega recommended products
		○	form Z
2D tools	○	○	Adobe Photoshop	Sega recommended products
	○	○	Adobe Illustrator
		○	Pixel Professional
	○	○	Digitizer	Sega recommended tools
data filter		○	DeBabelizer	Sega recommended products
	○	○	Adobe Photoshop	Plugin

SEGA recommends the following development environment.

Regarding hardware, we use SGI machines such as INDY and INDIGO2 for 3D tools , and Macintosh series for 2D tools in a network environment. Please refer to the table and figure below for details on the machine configuration and specifications.

Table 3-2 List of hardware for designers recommended by Sega

tool	Model name	remarks
development host	INDY,INDIGO2	CPU R4600SC, R4400SC, RAM 64MB or more, HDD 1GB or more, 24bit full color
	Power Macintosh	CPU Power PC601, RAM 16MB or more, HDD 500MB or more, 24bit full color video board

Figure 3-1 Sega's recommended hardware environment for designers

From now on, we will discuss this combination in this manual.