#3dsr3 CD colored album?
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Hi Ingo,
Did you ever come up with an american dealer/german fax number for the color
picture book?
I would like a book for the 3ds3 texture universe and one for the world
creating tool kit if you have any info.
Thanks,
Byron
Byron, I AGREE! I tested the CD-ROM for Autodesk last summer and so looked at
every texture on it…due to filename limitations, many, if not most, names do
not logically describe what the texture is. I feel that a "colored album" is
absolutely imperative for full use of these textures (not to mention lucrative
for someone out there with the facilities to do it).
Regards, Connie
Constance,
<< I feel that a "colored album" is absolutely imperative for full use of
these textures (not to mention lucrative for someone out there with the
facilities to do it). >>
If you have access to a color printer, the album exists in the lib.
Search 3D Studio section and the Images/Animation section with the keyword
"World Creating". There should be a total of 8 files.
jonas[adesk]
Thanks for the info, Jonas.
Connie
Connie
<< I feel that a is absolutely imperative for full use of these textures (not
to mention lucrative for
someone out there with the facilities to do it).
"colored album">>
I don't know about lucrative. If I were to make an album, I would probably
place the images 6 up on a
letter size page with landscape orientation. If you were to keep the file
size constant, you would get a
higher resolution output. Moving the large files would be done on Bernoulli
disk but the color laser print
(either Kodak 1550 or Xerox 5775 Fierry) cost about $6. for the first page and
$1. for each copy (because the postscript header allows the file to be send
once and printed multiple times). If you take 425 images (Texture Universe) 6
up, you need 71 prints total. The first set costing $426. and each additional
set $71. If I were to make 20 sets I would have to charge $88.75 just to pay
for printing. I don't know how bad other people want an
album, but I would probably be willing to spend $50-65 not $89. The best
option & quality would be if we
were to go to an offset press which would provide about 1800 dots per inch
instead of just 400dpi from a
color laser. This would cost more if we only made a couple of sets because of
higher setup costs, but if
we had lots of sets made, it would work out great (lower cost per set & higher
quality). I guess that it depends on how many users are willing to pay about
$60 for the album. The cost for a 3ds.mli album would be about half if you
were to place the testures 6 up. There is a direct relationship between the
size of the image and price. The happy medium lays where you get a reasonable
size (larger than your thumbnail) but few enough pages to keep the cost down.
Somewhere between 2up to 9up I would guess would probably work. If there is
sufficient interest, I would donate my time to do the layout (# of images up &
description's/captions) as well as take them to a press. Let me know what you
which album you would prefer (or both) and what layout would be ideal. I will
be the first to sign up. 🙂
Regards,
Byron