CompuServe Messages

Tony, >>>I've been hearing that it's hard to create basic 2D and 3D primatives in Playmation. This might be the case if you are _already_ experienced in modeling in a 3D polygon based program… The habits and expectations get on the way… If you don't have those and discover a good way of working in Animation:Master primitives are a snap… You learn that everything is realated to a point zero (pivot) and scaling in 3D is as good as draging points… Very powerful… The frustrating part is disconecting and conecting splines to control points the right way and the limitation of "patches" (3 or 4 points conected — more than 4 points give you a hole)… >>>color and texture mapping are difficult to view without a full render Yes, this is true — Nothing I know of comes close to the immediate response of TrueSpace in this area… Imagine with its "quick render" is also one step ahead. tha thing that has to be said though is that a big part here is the way you work… for example it is possible to render and manipulate splines all in the same time if you work smart… (no way to do that in Imagine and TrueSpace) pawel