MicroBot Design Disk
03-Dec-88 12:04:12
Sb: #7149-MicroBot Design Disk
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767
Hierarchies aren't really present in the CAD-3D objects. The objects are
separated into pieces, but there is no notion of the "hand-bone connected
to the leg-bone" – that's all done in a separate script for the
Cyber-whatever interpreter. Also, if we had converted the objects to
Sculpt Animate format, that is, with the hierarchies, the objects would
have been too bulky to all fit on one disk. For VideoScape, it is so
difficult to make hierarchical objects – and it wasn't even possible
(really) in VS 1.0. However, our in-house CAD-3D converter does handle the
separate objects, so if we convert to Turbo Silver, the objects *are*
separate. Antic is talking to us about converting to your format,
however.