3. Environment required for designers

If the designer does the development, there are several possible machine configurations. However, in the case of designers, the part that depends on software rather than hardware is very large, so we will list typical product names and compatible models for each required tool.

Table 3-1 List of typical designer tools

tool	Compatible models		product name	remarks
	SGI	Mac
3D tool	○		SOFTIMAGE 3D Saturn Toolkit	Recommended by Sega
		○	ShadeIII for SEGA SATURN	Recommended by Sega
		○	form Z
2D tool	○	○	Adobe Photoshop	Recommended by Sega
	○	○	Adobe Illustrator
		○	Pixel Professional
	○	○	Digitizer	Recommended tools for Sega
Data filter		○	DeBabelizer	Recommended by Sega
	○	○	Adobe Photoshop	Plugin

SEGA recommends the following development environments.

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

Table 3-2 List of designer hardware 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, 24-bit full-color video board

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

From now on, we will proceed with this combination in this manual.