CompuServe Messages

Clint, Got my 3.03 upgrade yesterday and I'm VERY impressed. Render times are a little longer than I'm used to when I render at highest quality but the images are worth the wait. I do have a couple of suggestions for the program though: 1. A small 3 ring binder would be nice for the manual. With the 3.03 update I now have the VisatPro 3.0 manual, the tutorial manual, the script language manual, the terraform manual, the terraform 2.0 suppliment, and the makepath manual. It would be nice to be able to hole-punch the small manuals and put them into the VistaPro binder to keep everything together. It'd also be cheaper for VRLI since they'd only need to change a couple of pages on the manual for the Windoze version. Might be worth suggesting to the management at VRLI. 2. I noticed in the manual that you can't have the camera above the clouds. I've found that punching through a cloud bank is a good transition from an Imagine rendering of a planet to a Vista rendering of an island. You can then drop down to the ground level and do a landscape anim. I understand that this limitation comes form the fact that VistaPro renders clouds first and then the landscape, and that if the camera is above the clouds the landscape will be drawn over top of them. Perhaps it would be possible to modify the rendering routine so that it checks the altitude of the camera and clouds and if the camera is above the clouds they're rendered last otherwise they're rendered first. (Or I could just continue to use AdPro for the transitions.) ;^) 3. I though the forward, port, and starboard camera postions are a neat feature, but why no aft view? If you rotate the camera 180 degrees and do another forward to use as an aft view will the edges still line up? The reason I ask is because this sounds like an easy way to do an anim of a camera rotating in position but you only have to render 4 frames. How about a button to render all 3 (or 4) automaticly? :^o <continued>