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#Special Effects

    19-Oct-94 12:08:45
Sb: #Special Effects
Fm: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
To: Hash
Steve, I recently inquired about Newton's Law. They informed me that the product will soon port over to the PC from the Amiga. Looking at the list of products that it interacts with on the Amiga, I asked them why it doesn't support Animation:Master. They said they were supporting applications that wrote their file format in ascii. HMMM!!! It seems like the perfect fit and they agreed and were willing to look into it, especially if Hash also showed some interest, SO steve how about it!!! 3rd party support is FREE ADVERTISING!! No product is too successful that it could do without that (IMHO)! <G> Of course, this is a moot point if A:M will be incorporating the cool features of Newtons Law i.e. particle animation (which, because of your motion library features, can kind of be simulated now, I think?), collision detection, explosions, fire, rain, wind, smoke, etc.. OR, am I not digging deep enough into the material editor. Could it be that now that a material can change over time, these effects are already possible?? If so, lets start with a puff of smoke (dust)? How would that be done? Thanks, Jim Jonah // hopin' those programmers are just codin' day and night!<G>//