#shadow catching/perspctv
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Hello,
I just saw a demo of topas pro 5.0 and they have a couple great new
features I'm sure you've all heard about. Add perpective from backround images
on your 3d objects and then add appropriate shadows !!! This would be
terriffic, also do you have any suggestions on adding shadows now, possibly in
vpost.
One more thing are there any conversion-utility programs for converting
FLC's to any MAC animation formats.
Thanks,
John
Those are currently on the wishlist (note that IPAS is going to handle most of
that stuff). Re conversion programs… try Debabelizer on the Mac.
– G
>>I just saw a demo of topas pro 5.0 and<<
>> they have a couple great new features<<
One other neat little feature on that program (I'm sure you've seen this,
probably a long time before I did, but anyway…) is the ability to create some
fairly good fake refractions. The technique, as I saw it described, was to
create a cubic environment map around the refractive object, and then just bend
the eye-ray into this map as it exits the refractive object. Not perfect, but
close enough… Maybe this could be simulated by 3DS now, but I bet it takes a
lot of steps!
Jim