CompuServe Messages

Hello James, With other Metaballs like MetaClay for SGI or Meta Editor for SGI, you control the fusion of the spheres with two wireframe circles. One is the Metaball size and the second is its influence. That sounds great with 8 or 10 Metaballs , but its literally a MESS when you have 1000. Then you cant control ANYTHING. Now think about the image made up by spheres in our female torso. You can perfectly see small yellow parts of sphere protuding in the collarbone area. The meaning of that is just THAT!. Collarbones are protuding with yellow fusion type. Color codes are INTUITIVE and after few hours using the program , a simple sight to a model can give you an acurate idea of its behaviour. And you dont need to issue a render to see that. The integrated FAST-RENDER preview shows a color render of the spheres in their fussion types. Real time Generation: The same Thing. I can assure you that managing real time fussion of more than 10 Metaballs with MetaClay is almost impossible. and with 50 is TOTALLY IMPOSIBLE. Do you know any Softimage metaball model of the same degree of complexity or control as T-REX ? MetaReyes approach is simply better (and of course much cheaper). Thanx for your interest. -Javi